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latedaud cut off from any new additions. We sec, liowever, 

 many instances wlicre varieties of lant^Miage, goverimient, 

 &('., Avhich are artificially kept up have tended to perpetuate 

 differences which, but for these, woukl probably have dis- 

 appeared. We see also how natural barriers, such as high 

 mountain ranges, almost entirely cut off all intercourse 

 between adjoining valleys. But we see also how no 

 <lifterences of race, government, or religion interfere Avith the 

 perpetual circulation of the inhabitants round and round the 

 shores of any inland sea. IMerchants and pirates, warlike 

 leaders, or peaceful people driven from their homes, all con- 

 tribute to the ever moving, circulating population of the sea- 

 board, till in the course of the ages a mixed race has been 

 formed having some of the blood and characteristics of all 

 the various nations that have lived around its shore. 



Mediterrmiean. 



Around the j\rediterranean, for instance, Ave have a mixture 

 of Moorish, Spanish, French, Italian, and Greek, Avith rem- 

 nants of many an ancient seafaring people from the Black Sea 

 and the Le\'ant. The maritime population has much in com- 

 mon whercA'^er Ave see it. They have a SAvarthy complexion, 

 dark hair, and a quick, restless eye. They are excitable, 

 deceitful, treacherous. In the "tideless, dolorous midland 

 sea" the struggle has been chiefly that of man against man, 

 and, Avhere force could not prcA^ail, craft might ; therefore they 

 are inveterate liars. Severity inspired fear ; therefore they are 

 cruel. They lived in an atmosphere of distrust. Suspecting 

 and suspected, their object Avas to outwit their opponent, 

 and the means employed did not so much matter; therefore 

 they are treacherous. These are the people Avith Avhom 

 traA'-ellers are brought into contact at ^Marseilles, at Smyrna, 

 or Batoum. These are the people Avho give a bad name to 

 the Neapolitans, and Greeks, and Levantines. 



When the recruits Avho had been draAvn from all OA^er the 

 country Avere being disbanded in Athens after the Avar Avitli 

 the Turks in 1897, it Avas A^ery interesting to notice their 

 racial characteristics and the difference betAveen them and 

 the sailors in the Pir;x3us ; for the seafaring folk avIio swarm 

 round the side of your ship among tlie Greek Islands or at 

 the Piraeus are A'-ery different from the Greeks of the interior, 

 and probably Avere always different, CA-^en before the great 

 influx of Slavs into Greece. 



