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featured. While they were telling me this, at the 

 Rosses near Sligo, they pointed out to me a young 

 fisherman casually passing by, who was one of the 

 handsomest and finest men I ever beheld. Mr. 

 Lamb, an English gentleman, who knows Sligo well, 

 says the people are about 5 feet 8 inches, and 

 " decidedly handsome." Mr. Delany, who has charge 

 of the tramcars at Nelson's Pillar, and was formerly 

 in the Metropolitan Police, says : " I am looking at 

 those labourers for thirty-seven years as they pass 

 through Dublin, and I think they -are from 5 feet 

 6 inches to 6 feet, and about 5 feet 8 inches on an 

 average." But to be brief, I have at various times 

 during many years asked the opinion of about forty 

 of the Metropolitan Police of the C and D divisions, 

 of fifteen Serjeants of constabulary in Dublin and 

 Kildare, at Cliffony, Grange, Breagh, and Mullagh- 

 more in Sligo ; of Bunduff, Tullaghan, and Kinloch 

 in Lei trim. I have consulted 16 carmen, 16 railway 

 officials and guards, 10 loungers or corner boys, 

 some of whom had been soldiers, 20 civilians, etc., 

 and these persons, in number about 140, gave the 

 heights as about 5 feet 6f , 5 feet 7 inches, 5 feet 

 7 1 inches, 5 feet 8 inches, 5 feet 8| inches, and 5 

 feet 9 inches. I asked each of them my own height 

 (which I knew) to ascertain if he was competent to 

 judge, and finding him fairly so I entered down his 



