260 ANGLO-SAXONS AND DANES. 



Grampians to the Humber and the upper branches of the Trent, 

 and limited shades for the Danish race, within the eastward 

 drainage of the Trent, Humber, Esk, Tees, and the westward 

 drainage of the Eden, Ellen, Derwent, Kent, Lune, and Kibble. 



RACES OF MEN IN YORKSHIRE. 



The elements of the population of Yorkshire are found in the 

 British Aborigines, the soldiers and colonists brought by Rome, 

 and the Saxons, Anglians, Danes and Northmen. Of these, if 

 we may credit the names of places and the course of history, the 

 most influential must be the races, which, according to all re- 

 search, came to us from the Fiords of Norway, the shores of the 

 Baltic, and the mouths of the Elbe and neighbouring rivers. 

 Now all these people, except a part of the Norwegians, are of 

 the blue-eyed Germanic race, as it was understood by Tacitus*, 

 and as it appears to-day in North Germany, Denmark, and 

 Sweden. Among the Northmen are two races one identical 

 with the Swedish, the other forming a peculiar Norwegian type 

 stout rather than tall men, of a deeper, more swarthy tint, 

 darker hair, darker eyes, and a different cast of features. 



The Romans brought to this country the blood of Italy, Spain 

 and Gaul; of Germany and Dalmatia; the proportion of the 

 latter races being probably greatest in the decline of the Western 

 empire. In their descendants we can only hope to distinguish 

 two groups ; one collecting itself round the Gallo-Germanic 

 type, a tall, fair and long-haired race, the other approaching to 

 the more delicate Iberian people, with embrowned skin, and 

 very dark hair and eyes. Such a colonization of Britain could 

 not materially alter the original aspect of the people, except by 

 increasing the admixture and diminishing the peculiarities of the 

 several varieties. 



The British race presented to Tacitus three varieties; one, 



" (Germanis) omnibus truces et cserulei oculi ; rutilse comae ; magna 

 corpora." De Mor. Germ. 



