286 Change in tht Appearance of the People. 



We are now advancing into a country in* 

 habited by a different race of human beings, 

 and fancy that we can already perceive a 

 manifest change. The inhabitants of the north 

 of Ireland are a stout, athletic race ; the men 

 well proportioned in the body and limbs, with 

 the exception of a defect frequently observable 

 about the knee. 



The women in the northern parts of Ireland , 

 or at least those we had an opportunity of see- 

 ing and conversing with, were, from a cast of 

 melancholy in their countenances (if not to be 

 reputed handsome), in general extremely in- 



teresting and attractive. 



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The national indignation excited against Mr. 

 Twiss, for the publicity given to his observa- 

 tions on this subject, makes it dangerous to be 

 minute, lest unintentionally I might incur dis- 

 pleasure. The apparent want of solidity and 

 form in the lower extremities of the working 

 classes, do not please an observer accustomed 

 to the excellence of shape so common to all 

 ranks in England ; yet the same want of due 

 proportion and symmetry is not discoverable in 

 the hand and arm. These observations are 

 alone applicable to those who labor in Ireland, 

 and equally extend to the hard-working Scotch 



