104 THE INFLUENCE OF HYBRIDITY. 



Iberians of the Spanish peninsula : the first, of Germanic, or 

 northern origin; the second, of Celtic, or southern origin. 

 Nobody denies, at the present day, that these two races 

 are well characterised, and every day one can meet perfect 

 specimens of them in England. We may quote certain dis- 

 tricts where the Silurian, Iberian, or Celtic race, as tradition 

 wills it, are dominant ;* for example, in the north-west of Gla- 

 morganshire, in the outskirts of Merthyr, and in the Yale of 

 Neath.f Mr. John Philips finds them equally abundant in the 

 DanelagJ district, between Leicester, Nottingham, and Derby, 

 with the same characteristics, ff black eyes and hair, uniform, 

 or rather, dark complexion. " Among these two races there 

 are of necessity a considerable number of cross-breeds who, 

 allying themselves among one another, or to the pure types, 

 produce varied results, and in this manner unite the two 

 groups by a multitude of inappreciable shades of difference. 



Such is also the case in France. Edwards || has divined it 

 almost by inspiration ; and M. Perier^f has powerfully added 

 to his presumptions, by examining more attentively all ancient 

 documents which treat on the inhabitants of Gaul. M. Broca, 

 in the Memoire which inaugurated the proceedings of the Paris 

 Anthropological Society,** has proved in the clearest possible 

 manner, that if we draw a line passing by Cherbourg and 

 Nice,ff we shall divide France into two distinct zones as re- 

 gards the appearance and height of the inhabitants. In the 

 south-west, the ancient Celtic population is of small height, as 



* Idem, ibidem. 



f See Latham, Celtic Language, p. 371. J. B. Davis and J. Thurnam, 

 Crania Britannica, p. 53. Garnet, in the Transactions of the Philological 

 Society. E. Cull and Latham, in the Edinburgh New Physical Journal, 1854. 

 Perier, Fragments Ethnologiques, Paris, 1857. 



J. Philips, see British Association, 1849. 



The name itself of this district shows, however, the habitation of these 

 parts by the Scandinavians. 



|| Compare W. Edwards, Des Caracteres Physiologiques des Races Humaines. 

 Paris, 1829. 



j[ See Perier, Fragments Ethnologiques, Paris, 1857. 



** Recherches sur I' Ethnologic de la France (Memoires de la Societe d'Anthro- 

 pologie, vol. i, p. 1). See, also, the discussion which followed the reading of 

 this paper (Bulletins de la Societe d' Anthropologie, meetings of July 21 and Au- 

 gust 4, 1859). 



ft We may remark that this line is precisely perpendicular to the clima- 

 teric parallels which divide France. 



