174 THE ENGLISH rEOPLE. 



regions in the direction of warmer, more fertile, 

 and wealthier [)lains. Tlie Anglo-Saxons, or true 

 English, Avho thus settled after the departure of 

 the Konians in the country now called, jifter their 

 name, England, did not, it is probable, extermi- 

 nate or drive out entirely the earlier and darker 

 half-Celtic population. Had they done so, the 

 people of England at the ])resent day would be, 

 without exce[)tion, as light-haired and blue-eyed 

 as in the fairest parts C)f Norway and Sweden. 

 But, as a matter of fact, in modern England dark 

 curly hair and black or blackish eyes are to be 

 found in quite half of the existing })opulation. 

 Into Wales and Cornwall the conquering English 

 never really j)enetrated in force at all, and the 

 population in those two districts still consists 

 almost entirely of the mixed dark race which we 

 now commonly know as Celtic, in contradistinc- 

 tion to the lighter Teutonic Anglo-Saxon type. 

 Cumberland, Westmoreland, and the greater part 

 of Lancashire, though afterwards partially settled 

 by the Northmen, similarly escaped the Anglo- 

 Saxon colonization. In Devon, Somerset, and 

 Dorset, as \\e\\ as along the Welsh border in 

 Hertfordshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, and 

 Cheshire, tho invading English appear to have 

 formed a mere sprinkling of a superior class 

 among a large mass of subject or servile Welsh 

 cultivators. And even in the most thoroughly 



