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class. In-door mechanics are somewhat less, their average 

 height being 5ft. 8*55 in. and weight 157 lb ; but tailors stand 

 lowest in physique, their height being 5ft. 7*7in., or about 

 1^ inches below the average of other occupations, and their 

 weight 150 - 4 lbs, or about 10 lbs. below the general average. 

 Tradesmen, clerks, &c, are pretty tall, their height being 

 5ft. 9'7lin., and though not so heavy as other classes, yet of 

 fair bulk, their average weight being 16T52 lbs. 



No information regarding the stature and bulk of man has 

 been obtained from Roxburghshire ; but from the other 

 Border county, Berwickshire, Dr. Beddoe received a few 

 returns, chiefly from Dr. Charles Stuart, one of the members 

 of the Club ; and in order to complete the information we 

 have on this subject relating to the Border land, we genera- 

 lise, in Table E, the results of the Berwickshire returns. 



TABLE E. BEEWICKSHIEE. 



Locality. 



Occupation. 



No. of 

 Men. 



Average 

 Height, 



Average 

 Weight. 



Chirnside - 



Burnmouth - 

 Eyemouth - 

 Eastern and \ 

 Middle Marches, j 

 and Lothian. ) 



Total - 



Farmers and persons ) 

 of pure local descent j 

 Rural population 

 All fishers 

 Mostly fishers 



Miscellaneous 



25 



15 



8 

 9 



16 



ft. in. 

 5 10-28 



5 8-45 

 5 8-20 

 5 7-73 



5 8-50 



lbs. 

 1635 



168-6 

 176-3 



165-9 



73 



5 8-97 





Of 58 the weight is given, and the average is 165'51 lbs. 

 Blue eyes and fair hair (light shades of brown chiefly) pre- 

 dominate. These returns are too scanty to warrant general 

 conclusions ; but they evidence, so far as they go, that the 

 Berwickshire physique differs but little from that of North 

 Northumberland. 



The Northumbrian and Berwickshire men appear indeed 

 to have had a common origin ; not only are their physical 

 characters similar, but we also find, that most of the names 

 of places in both counties are constructed in the same manner 

 and derived from the same language ; even the common 

 speech, or patois, of Berwickshire is similar to that of 

 North Northumberland, though the pronunciation is some- 



