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few individuals of the 'true light Aryan type ; and, as 

 the races were distinct in the days of Caesar and 

 Tacitus, the coalescence probably took place during 

 the period of the Roman occupation. 



After the Romans were gone, however, a second 

 flood of Aryan immigration began to spread over the 

 land. The new comers were the English and Saxons, 

 two Teutonic tribes of Low Dutch pirates, who then 

 inhabited Sleswick and the coasts of Hanover and 

 Friesland. There is no doubt that the original 

 English were a light-haired, light- skinned, blue-eyed 

 people of the ordinary Aryan sort. They came over 

 in small clans or families, and settled first on the east 

 and south coasts, from the Frith of Forth to South- 

 ampton Water, making their way, in most cases, 

 into the interior, as was natural for pirates, by means 

 of the inlets or estuaries. Whether the Teutons 

 utterly exterminated the native Britons or not is a 

 question that has been much debated from the histo- 

 rical point of view ; and the weight of mere historical 

 authority is certainly on the side of extirpation. Mr. 

 Freeman and Canon Stubbs are both in favour of the 

 belief that the early English conquerors killed off all 

 the Britons thab is to say, in terms of our present 

 discussion, the mixed Celtic and Euskarian inhabitants 

 of the Romanised province while Mr. J. B. Green, 

 the very latest writer on the subject, is of opinion 

 that the Britons were simply driven off in the struggle, 

 but not to any appreciable extent absorbed or en- 

 slaved by the conquerors. From the anthropological 



