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HAMPSHIRE DAYS 



types are first, the small, narrow-headed person of brown 

 skin, crow-black hair, and black eyes ; of this rarest and 

 most interesting type I shall speak last. Second, the 

 person of average height, slightly oval face, and dark 

 eyes and hair. The accompanying portrait of a young 

 woman in a village on the Test is a good specimen of 



this type. Now we find that this dark-haired, dark- 

 eyed, and often dark-skinned people are in stature, 

 figure, shape of head, and features exactly like the oval- 

 faced blonde people already described. They are, light 

 and dark, an intermediate type, and we can only say 

 that they are one and the same people, the outcome of 

 a long mixed race which has crystallised in this form 



