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of them Welsh, or Lancastrian, and others Norman, 

 are scattered throughout the Pale. But, as a whole, 

 Ireland is probably more Euskarian and less Aryan 

 than any other part of Britain. In Scotland, the 

 north and the Isles are Celt-Euskarian, with a large 

 Scandinavian admixture; the Central Highlands are 

 Euskarian with a very small Celtic element intermixed ; 

 the Eastern Lowlands are mainly English ; and the 

 Western Lowlands are peopled by Strathclyde Welsh- 

 men that is to say, Celt-Euskarians, probably with a 

 larger dash of Aryan Celtic and English blood than 

 elsewhere. Wales is Euskarian at bottom, slightly 

 Celticised, and with a little English and Norse blood. 

 England itself is mainly English (or Low Dutch) in 

 the south-east; English and Danish, with a little 

 Celt-Euskarian admixture, in the Eastern Counties, 

 the North, and the Midlands ; English and Celt- 

 Euskarian in the West country, and the Severn Valley ; 

 and Norse and Celt-Euskarian in Lancashire and the 

 Lake District. Cornwall alone remains almost wholly 

 Euskarian in type. All these statements, however, 

 must be accepted merely in the rough, and they apply 

 especially to the agricultural classes and the mass of 

 the people. At the present day, the upper classes 

 have intermarried all over the three kingdoms ; the 

 mercantile classes have moved about till Mac's and 

 O's are as common in London as in Perthshire and 

 Mayo ; and even the artisans have poured into every 

 great manufacturing town from all parts of the 

 country. Ever since the beginning of the modern 



