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grow naturally, seems to have, in many cases, a 

 tendency to fork at the end. 



" The foregoing description is, of course, a general 

 one, applying only to the prevailing type ; there is, 

 however, a second type not infrequently met with, 

 the chief characters of which are, long oval face, 

 with but slightly marked angles to the jaws, less 

 prominent cheek bones and sharper features. 



" The figure seems to be slighter in youth, but to 

 exhibit a tendency to put on flesh with advancing 

 years. The hair, in this type, is usually lighter 

 owing to admixture. 



" Though there are some men of small stature in 

 the community, there are also some above the 

 middle height, and the majority are of about the 

 middle stature. 



" As this is the district of County Mayo, in- 

 habited by a colony of Ulster origin, it may not be 

 out of place to repeat here what was written about 

 people of similar origin in the Mullet, that there 

 appears to be no foundation whatever for the state- 

 ment made originally by an anonymous writer, and 

 quoted repeatedly since by several writers both in 

 this country and abroad, to the effect that the 

 descendants of the dispossessed Ulster tribes, who 

 settled in the counties of Sligo and Mayo, have 

 through intermarriage and deficient food dwindled 



