104 THE IRISH PEOPLE. 



from one The Sligo people, though showing types 

 of our various races, are still a fair, well-featured, 

 remarkably intelligent, intellectual-looking people, 

 and, to my mind, are the finest peasantry in 

 Ireland." 



103. Colonel Raleigh Chichester, an Englishman : 

 " 11 Vincent Street, South Circular Road, Dublin, 

 September 21, 1886. I lived for about twelve years 

 continuously in Roscommon, and I suppose the 

 Mayo and Sligo men are much of the same sort. 

 There are among Connaughtmen (but not as a 

 characteristic feature) oases of ' open, projecting 

 mouths, prominent teeth, and exposed gums and 

 advancing cheekbones.' ' Depressed noses,' where 

 they exist, are probably the result of applied physical 

 force, but not congenital. ' Five feet two inches 

 upon an average, pot-bellied, bow-legged ' all this 

 is nonsense. There are no signs of deterioration in 

 any part of Ireland that I am acquainted with, and 

 I know something of Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Ros- 

 common, Galway, Mayo. I think the population 

 of Connaught is somewhat shorter and more hard- 

 featured than the people in other parts of Ireland ; 

 but I do not recognise them in the descriptions of 

 Hall and Quatrefages. They are physically able, 

 and uncommonly shrewd. I also doubt the power 



