ANCIENT AND MODERN CELT. 3&5 



Gwynne, &c. ; and Donelly, Flaherty, Flannigaa, Kelly, Macguire, 

 McCaul, McLeary, McColIum, O'Brien, O'Calahan, O'Reilly, &c. 

 The subdivisions which such names suggest are scarcely less obvious 

 than those which, in Lower Canada, separate the BrcTjns, Smiths, 

 Hendersons. Thompsons, Masons, Langtons, Feiiwicks, Frisbys, &c., 

 from Chariebois, Barbeau, Charpsntie?, Chartrawd, Beslanaer, De- 

 Lusingnaii, Durocher, Filialreaut, Lsbelle, Laf;>n4«:i>e, Lemieux, 

 Moatjgsjy, Nadeau, Perrault, Robitaii, Simard, Saedier, VerfWr, &c. 



But the Sazon and Celtic names of the BriJbh Islands indicate 

 races which have been intermingling for centurieSa Kutii nmnj lines of 

 demarcation have been nearly effaced ; whereac th« IPrench Rnd Eng- 

 lish populations of Lower Canada are ssiil separated by the clearly de- 

 fined traces of recent contact. The latter condition of thistgs ia illus- 

 trated in their head-forms. With fevy eseeptio!i§ ihey can b? distin- 

 guiehed from each other at a glance. WheTeas, altliou^h She two 

 types which I conceive to be the Saxon and Cekie head-iortus of the 

 British Islands, are satisfactorily classed apart, by such evidence as I 

 have indicated : yet many modified forms occur, disclosing «!! inter- 

 mediate gradations between the two ; and oecagWRftllythe pitre S«xon 

 type bears a Celtic name, or vice versa. Nsraiasidy ciid indrpd imce 

 furnish its quota of colonists to Britain as well as to Lower Canada. 

 But, if the followers of William of Normasidy incliis>?ed those of the 

 brachycephalic type now met with in Canada, th?y hjive lor?'.-- since 

 intermingled with, and been absorbed into the commoa rsrss. £\cep- 

 tiooal forme are traceable at times, where the ^evidence is acces^iitie, to 

 the miscellaneous sources of intrusive population. Gm h»'»«! ni pecu- 

 liar and marked brachycephalic form, with a common Ei8iiii'*h tsame 

 attached to it, proved to inherit its specialities fyoin a Ildidno mniher ; 

 another, »o less striking for its peculiar length, was thai of a '" black 

 Dcuglaj".*' In these cases the names were calcaUt'tJ to 5?tislead ; but 

 in general they furnished the desired clue. In arjanijing a \&rzv col- 

 lection of head-forms according to their shapes, I rutsad on ene ocea- 

 sioii that I had thrown sundry exceptional patteifESij aiwd*? as '/ailiKg 4o 

 claBfesjy UBKkr any of the determinate typeo of Fre5;ct3 ntsJ F.ssgljsh 

 heads. On returning to examine the namc-s^ ih^j wrA .ts foHovTS : 

 Kleiscn, Lansberg, Rosebrugh, Snider, KauffinaE, KwsdricC:, iJt'\'/(ntol, 

 Bastedo, ilirsch. Levy, Benjamin. The list of names abundantly ac- 

 counts fo? the Riiccellaneous character of thei.' head-torms, if there 

 is any ethmcal founducioQ for such u system of classification. 



