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Taste [V.—Showing the Number of Adult Males of the Ages above 25 
and under 55 years for each group of counties possessing the same 
| AVERAGE STaToRE, and the ratio per 1,000. From the Census returns 
m= . of 1881. 
Observed Adult male 
average stature S -. Se population Per 
without shoes in Counties of the United Kingdom age 25-55 1,000 
inches years 
- < 
% 
Kirkeudbright, Ayr, Wigton; | 
— |694 and upwards burgh, Linlithgow, Haddington, ; 125,103 22°2 
Berwickshire. ) 
Sutherland, Ross and Cromarty, et 
Perth, Stirling, Dumbarton, Fife, = ¢ 
BY, to-G25 Kinross, Clackmannan ; North and aon, 300 
East Ridings of Yorkshire. J 
683 to 69 burgh, Selkirk, Peebles; Northum- 459,055 81-7 
pM Bute, Arran, Dumfries, nm} 
berland; Connaught, Munster. 
Caithness, Inverness, Aberdeen, Banff, 
Elgin, Nairn, Forfar, Kincardine ; 
Lanark, Renfrew; Cumberland, 974,177 173-4 
Westmoreland; Lincoln, Norfolk; 
Ulster, Leinster. 
Shetland, Western Hebrides ; Durham, 
Lancashire, Derby, Stafford; Suf- ‘ 4 
folk, Essex, Kent ; Berkshire ; Corn- 1,826,292 236-0 
wall. : 
{ ingham, Leicester, Ru rel 
68 to 683 
67} to 68 
Northampton, Bedford; Warwick, 
Worcester; Flint, Denbigh ; Sussex, 
Hampshire, Dorset, Devon. 
— London (66-92 inches). 
67 to 67} 688,465 | 1226 
667,118 118-7 
West Riding of Yorkshire, Chester; 
Carnarvon, Anglesea, Merioneth, 
663 to 67 Montgomery, Cardigan, Brecon, } 636,769 113°3 
Radnor; Cambridge, Huntingdon; | 
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire. 
Hertford, Middlesex (ex. metrop.); 
Surrey (ex. metrop.); Shropshire, 
Hereford, Monmouth, Gloucester, 
Wiltshire, Somerset; Glamorgan, 
Caermarthen, Pembroke. 
66 to 662 
5,618,677 1000- 
67-58 inches, average stature of adult males (25-55 years 
Stature x Population - 
e | of age) of the United Kingdom. 
Total male population 
29. Ethnotogy.—The variations in stature, weight, and complexion 
shown to exist in different districts of the British Isles by the maps, ap- 
pear to be chiefly due to difference of racial origin, and this influence pre- 
_ dominates over all others. ‘ We have reason to believe, from historical and 
_ antiquarian researches, that the ancient Caledonii, the Belgz and Cimbri, 
and the Saxons and Frisians, as well as the Danes and N: ormans, were all 
people of great stature. On the other hand, the prehistoric (neolithic) 
_ race or races in Britain appear to have been of low or moderate 
stature. Accordingly the higher statures are found in the Pictish or 
