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difficult in this land of many mixed races, heedless of 

 the scoffs of the learned or of those who derive their 

 learning from books alone, and mock at men whose 

 documents are " bones and skins." But we sometimes 

 see that they (the anthropologists) have not yet wholly 

 emancipated themselves from the old written false- 

 hoods when they tell us, as they frequently do, that the 

 Iberian in this country survives only in the west and 

 the north. They refer to the small, swarthy Welshman ; 

 to the so-called " black Celt " in Ireland, west of the 

 Shannon ; to the small black Yorkshireman of the Dales, 

 and to the small black Highlander ; and the explanation 

 is that in these localities remnants of the dark men of 

 the Iberian race who inhabited Britain in the Neolithic 

 period, were never absorbed by the conquerors ; that, in 

 fact, like the small existing herds of indigenous white 

 cattle, they have preserved their peculiar physical char- 

 acter down to the present time by remaining unmixed 

 with the surrounding blue-eyed people. But this type 

 is not confined to these isolated spots in the west and 

 north ; it is found here, there, and everywhere, especially 

 in the southern counties of England: you cannot go 

 about among the peasants of Hampshire, Wiltshire, and 

 Dorset without meeting examples of it, and here, at all 

 events, it cannot be said that the ancient British people 

 were not absorbed. They, the remnant that escaped 

 extermination, were absorbed by the blue-eyed, broad- 

 headed, tall men, the Goidels we suppose, who occupied 

 the country at the beginning of the Bronze Age ; and 



