266 REPORT—1883. 
Cimbro-British districts of Galloway; in the Anglo-Danish ones ‘of 
North and East Yorkshire, Westmoreland and Lincolnshire, and in 
Cumberland, whose people are ethnologically intermediate between the 
two. Lothian and Berwickshire are mainly Anglian, while the Perth- 
shire Highlanders are the most clearly identified as the descendants of 
the Caledonii. The high position of Norfolk in the list is due to a large 
admixture of Danish blood on the coast. There is a fringe of moderately 
high stature all round the coast from Norfolk to Cornwall, while the 
inland people, retaining more of the ancient British blood, yield lower 
averages. Middlesex and Hertfordshire, which stand very low, were 
later and less perfectly colonised by the Anglo-Saxon than the surround- 
ing counties, and nearly the same may be said of the counties around the 
Severn estuary and the Welsh border. Cornwall stands higher than the 
surrounding counties, and this is probably due to its having become the 
refuge of the military class of Southern Britain, in the main of Belgic 
origin. Flint and Denbigh owe their superiority to the other Welsh 
counties to the immigration of the Cumbrian and Strathclyde Britons.’ 
—Dr. Beddoe. 
30. According to the Committee’s returns, the western provinces of 
Ireland possess a high stature, similar to the Scotch Highlands, with 
which they may have a common racial origin, while the lower stature of 
the eastern provinces is probably traceable to the comparatively recent 
Scotch and English immigrations. The Irish returns are, however, too 
few to be relied on (although the closeness of the averages for all the 
provinces would suggest the absence of any errors of observation), and 
any conclusions drawn from them must be received with great reserve 
until they are confirmed by more extended inquiries. In some of the. 
returns the county origin and birthplace was not recorded, which ac- 
counts for the difference between the totals for the whole of Ireland and 
those living in each province. 
31. The racial elements of the British population are best demon- 
strated by separating a few of the counties where there has been the least 
admixture of foreign blood, and comparing these together, thus :— 
Race District Stature | Weight 
Early British .| Cardigan, Radnor, and Brecon . < - | 66:59 169°3 
Saxon 3 2 Sussex, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire . C 67°22 1558 
Anglian . Lothians, Northumberland, and Norfolk . 68°73 166°7 
Scandinavian { Shetland, Caithness, North ‘and East York-) 
avian . ve 
shire, and Lincolnshire. BB*s2 162°7 
32. Geographical distribution.—The inhabitants of the more elevated 
districts possess a greater stature than those of alluvial plains. The 
counties forming the river valleys of the Severn and Wye, the Thames, 
the Dee and Mersey, the Clyde, the Trent, and the fen district of Cam- 
bridge and Huntingdon, show a lower stature than the surrounding 
counties inhabited by persons of a similar racial origin. 
30. With respect to latitude and climate, the inhabitants of the northern 
and colder districts possess greater stature than those of the southern and 
warmer parts of the island ; those of the north-eastern and drier regions: 
are taller than those of the south-western and damper climates. A similar 
disposition of stature has been found to exist in France and Italy, the 
