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who yet have very long heads. Have we here the traces of Dr. 

 Thurnam^s dolichokephalous loug-barrow-men ? 



The mention of these same long-barrow kymbekephali 

 transports one at once from the region of dry and repulsive 

 modern fact into the enticing and glorious uncertainty of pre- 

 historic theory. For my own part, neither Dr. Wilson nor Dr. 

 Thurnam has as yet quite convinced me that there was a dis- 

 tinct megalithic race, still less that that race was Iberian. 



In forming my idea as to the existence of a common Keltic 

 type, I have been guided very much by the evidence of colour. 

 "■ Colour/' said Sir Henry Rawlinson, while presiding over 

 the Geographical Section of the British Association at Bath, 

 " is of no value in the consideration of types. '^ From this 

 statement of Sir Henry's I most emphatically differ. It has 

 never hitherto been proven that chromatic is more changeable 

 than cranial type, where there is no intermixture of blood ; 

 and to assert that it is so is at least premature. 



Now, there is a certain chromatic character, the frequency 

 of which I have myself observed in all parts of Ireland, in 

 most parts of the Scottish Highlands and of Wales, in Corn- 

 wall, in the West of England to a gradually diminishing 

 extent as one travels eastward into Wessex, in Champagne, 

 and less markedly in the Walloon country, and in Piedmont, 

 and which, on the trustworthy evidence of M. de Belloquet, 

 I believe to be common also in Brittany. I mean that con- 

 junction of blue, cserulean or ashgrey eyes, with dark hair, 

 brows, and lashes, which Dr. Barnard Davis calls, for shortness 

 sake, "the Keltic eye.'' Having found this combination 

 frequent everywhere where Keltic blood may be supposed to 

 abound, and scarcely anywhere else, I believe it to furnish a 

 pretty good index of the presence of Kelts. 



In the next place, is there any cranial form which abounds 

 wherever the " Keltic eye" abounds ? With the diffidence 

 which becomes one who has not made craniology a special 

 study, I incline to think that, there is. It is the one which 

 my friend Dr. Daniel Wilson, in his recent and important 

 paper on the characteristics of the ancient and modern Kelt, 

 designates as the pear-shaped or insular Keltic type, and 



