THE IRISH PEOPLE. 



by the long practice of his profession he ought to 

 know more about jaws, noses, and faces than 

 Beddoe, Topinard, or Virchow ; besides he is an 

 accurate amateur portrait painter. He came with 

 me on one or more of my rounds of inspection. 

 We visited a steamer which conveys the harvestmen 

 to and from England, and were informed by the 

 captain that they were " about 67 inches in height, 

 of fair or sandy hair, a few red, and a few black ; " 

 and by the mate, who said they carried thousands 

 of them, that they were " like other people in 

 England and Ireland, but not so well dressed, and 

 of fairer hair and complexion." The Captain of 

 another vessel told us that they were 68 or 67 

 inches high ; and two of his crew, who had been 

 going with harvestmen for twenty years, said they 

 " were 67 or 68 inches high, of fair, or auburn, or 

 dusty-coloured hair, and no red." 



150. According to the anonymous writer in the 

 Dublin University Magazine, of December, 1836: 

 " It is not necessary to travel out of Dublin to 

 study in this school. From June till August our 

 quays are a commodious class-room. A hundred 

 professors of spare diet may here be found any day 

 in the week . . . five feet two upon an average," 

 etc. Well, I have made it my business for some 

 years to look at thousands of those ' professors of 



