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Teutonized counties of Britain, such as Kent, 

 Sussex, Lincolnshire, and Yoi'ksliire, it is not dif- 

 ficult to meet among the population with ahundant 

 traces of a yet unswamped dark element. Every- 

 "where, in fact — even in the most English por- 

 tions of England — a British race which is not 

 English survives and flourishes to our own day in 

 considerahle nund)ers. 



The later invasions hardly did much to disturb 

 the general balance of our poj)ulation thus roughly 

 indicated. Danes and Nt)rmans were both essen- 

 tially Teutonic at bottom ; and both settled for 

 the most part in districts which had already been 

 colonized by English and Saxons. Indeed, the 

 only great change in this respect which has come 

 over the ethnography of England in later times 

 has been brought about by a peaceful return-wave 

 of the darker so-called Celtic race upon the lighter 

 Teutonic districts in the southern and eastern 

 half of our islands. Welshmen, lonjx driven l>ack- 

 ward by the English arms, have now {juietly 

 crossed the border in their turn, and settled bv 

 the thousand in Liverpool, Birmingham, Ahmches- 

 ter, and Lon(h)n. Highland Scots have descended 

 in force upon Edinburgh and (jllasgow; while not 

 a few of tiieiM may be found scattered freely here 

 and there even in the most southern I'.iiglish cities. 

 Cornishmen, Devonians, and otl.'cr West-Country- 

 men, have swamped into Soutliampton, Ports- 



