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mentioned, but by the Egyptian pictures of Greeks and lonians^ 

 with blue eyes and light hair, as early as 1300 B.C. The home of 

 the race seems to have been on the Volga, and the red-haired 

 Alans, from the north of the Caucasus, appear to have presented 

 the same type. Linguistically the Greek and Latin langoages arc 

 nearest akin to the Celtic. 



It is often said that language and race have little or no con- 

 nection ; yet to the present day, broadly speaking, the various 

 stocks (as far as they are distinguishable) speak the same lan- 

 guage that they used when history opens. It seems that the 

 prevailing tongue is tliat of the majority of any population, and 

 that culture words are furnished by whatever element in that 

 population is most cultured. 



The Danes appear to have been specially fond of islands, and 

 the type of islanders often differs greatly, on our coasts, from that 

 of their neighbours on the main land. The Danish type may be 

 observed in the islands on the west coast of Ireland — as I have 

 jDersonally observed— and the Portland islanders are mainly Danes, 

 as contrasted with the Dorset Saxons. I have been equally struck 

 with the difference between the latter (who resemble the Dutch),, 

 and the red-haired, brown-eyed type prevalent in Devonshire and 

 Cornwall. Having travelled over the greater part of Ireland, 

 I was surprised to find how mixed was the population, even in 

 the far west — Saxons, Dutch, Walloons, and other Teutons, being 

 distinguishable, with the two Celtic types : one black-haired, 

 pale, and with blue eyes, especially in Mayo, where they often 

 speak Irish only : the other, red-haired with blue eyes. In Keri-y 

 there is an admixture of Spanish blood, dating from the sixteenth 

 century a.d., and, in the north, of Teutonic from the Scottish 

 Lowlands. 



One of the most marked features of the Scandinavian, as 

 contrasted with the Lettish and Teutonic types, appears to be 

 the long flat skull, which was found among Normans (as in the 

 case of Robert Bruce), and among the prehistoric inhabitants 

 of the Channel Islands, as I ascertained in Guernsey in 1890. 



I venture to think that the prevalence of "marriage by capture" 

 has been somewhat exaggerated. I have studied customs among 

 Arabs which would usually be ascribed to such an origin, but 

 have found that the repulse of the bridegroom was generally 

 ascribed to certain ideas of modesty on the part of the women. 



There is not, I think, any reliable evidence that the Amorites 



