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ment. I am glad to see the Duke of Argyll quoting 

 Prendergast. I copied those two passages out of him 

 last year, and they are valuable as written by one of the 

 Nationalists. You will forgive my insisting on the risk 

 of minimizing the distinctly Celtic nature of the Irish 

 population. Temperament, features, history, all com- 

 bine to support their claim to be regarded as Celts to a 

 far more complete degree than either Highlanders, 

 Galloway men or Welsh. In Man, where the speech is 

 Celtic, the people are mainly Norse, so they are in Lewis, 

 but in Skye, Celtic. 



From the above it appears that the place, in 

 order of precedence, of the Archpirate of the 

 period was just one above that of the Archbishop. 

 It had been suggested that the said Maccus was 

 an ancestor of the Maxwell family, but Sir Herbert 

 seems inclined to disown him. 



Professor Huxley writes on the same subject : 



4 Marlborough Place, N.W., 

 July 24>th, 1887. 



My dear Lubbock — I am afraid that my Unionist 

 proclivities are also sufficiently notorious to damage 

 my chance of being regarded as an unprejudiced witness 

 in respect of the ethnology of the three Kingdoms. 



But, luckily for me, I said my say on the subject 

 fifteen or sixteen years ago in a Sunday lecture on " The 

 Fore-fathers and Fore-runners of the English people " 

 delivered on January 9th, 1870. There is a very good 

 report of it in the Pall Mall Gazette of the 10th. 



It brought a nest of hornets about my ears, English 

 and Irish. I summed up the points which I thought 

 most important in an article " On some fixed points in 

 British Ethnology," which is reprinted in my Critiques 

 and Addresses — an interesting volume which for some 

 reason or other the British public has never properly 

 appreciated — though they go on buying other produc- 

 tions of mine which, so far as I can see, are not a bit 

 better. 



I have my hands full just now ; but I will turn over 

 your suggestion in my mind. 



As to the facts of the case, I imagine that there can be 



