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hills. They are also more sparsely recognisable in 

 many parts of England itself, especially in the York- 

 shire plain, in Lincolnshire, and along the Severn 

 valley. And they are fairly frequent in wild Wales. 

 All over the country, too, persons or families of this 

 dark early type occur here and there sporadically. 

 Indeed, it is probable that some relics of Euskarian 

 blood survive everywhere in Britain, and that every 

 one of us is more or less remotely descended on one 

 side or the other from neolithic ancestors. Dark 

 children of true Euskarian type are liable to be born 

 from time to time in almost all families. It may be 

 well to add also, in a science which is so personal to- 

 most of us as ethnology, that there is absolutely no 

 sufficient proof that any one type or race in Britain is 

 mentally or morally superior to any other. We must 

 not fall into the easy habit of supposing that an earlier 

 race is necessarily either a better or a worse one : the 

 facts do not go to prove either supposition. 



Secondly, there is a superstratum or later stage of 

 light Aryan people, who have broken over the islands 

 in three distinct waves Celtic, English, and Scandi- 

 navian and have everywhere mixed more or less with 

 one another, and with the old Euskarian race. Ireland 

 is, perhaps, mainly peopled by Euskarians, intermixed,, 

 in most parts, with Celts (but least so in Connemara 

 and Kerry), while round its east coast there is much 

 Scandinavian blood; and in Ulster there are many 

 Scots, who are really Strathclyde Celt-Euskarians from 

 the western lowlands. So-called English settlers, many 



