106 THE IKISH PEOPLE. 



and I can safely say, the statement that the peasants 

 would remind one of the lowest type of Australian 

 savages is utterly without foundation!' 



105. The Marquis of Sligo, who has about 115,000 

 acres in Mayo : " Losely Park, Guildford, August 

 25th, 1886. As to height, Mayo men and other 

 Irishmen, seem to me quite as tall and as well made 

 as English and other nations, in their youth. In 

 old age they are more upright than the English, 

 as they are not bent down by hard work as in 

 England." 



106. The Earl of Granard, Lord Lieutenant of 

 Leitrim, and Lieutenant-Colonel of the 9th battalion 

 Rifle Brigade: "Castle Forbes, August 7th, 1886. 

 I am thoroughly acquainted with Leitrim, having 

 property there, and having spent most of my life 

 on its borders. I can, and do therefore, bear ac- 

 curate and willing testimony to the utter untruth 

 of the dwarf theory. The people of Leitrim are a 

 fine, good-looking, well-grown race, both men and 

 women ; the best proof that they are not dwarfs, 

 is, that numbers of them are in the Royal Irish 

 Constabulary. 



" I can say the same of the Sligo people ; and as 

 for the fishermen on the Sligo coast, it would be 

 hard to find a finer or hardier race." 



107. Sir Andrew Reed, C.B., Inspector-General of 



