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actual population of Yorkshire into natural groups, we shall 

 find, independent of Irish immigrants, three main types fre- 

 quently distinct, but as often confused by interchange of 

 elementary features. 



" 1. Tall, large-boned muscular persons; visage long, angu- 

 lar ; complexion fair, or florid; eyes blue or gray ; hair light 

 brown, or reddish. Such persons in all parts of the country 

 form a considerable part of the population. In the North 

 Riding, from the eastern coast to the western mountains, 

 they are plentiful. Blue-eyed families prevail very much 

 about Lincoln. 



" 2. Person robust ; visage oval, full, and rounded ; nose 

 often slightly aquiline ; complexion somewhat embrowned, 

 florid; eyes brown, or gray ; hair brown, or reddish. In the 

 West Riding, especially in the elevated districts, very power- 

 ful men have these characters. 



" 3. Persons of lower stature and smaller proportions ; 

 visage short, rounded ; complexion embrowned ; eyes very 

 dark, elongated ; hair very dark. (Such eyes and hair are 

 commonly called black). Individuals having these characters 

 occur in the lower grounds of Yorkshire, as in the valley of 

 the Aire below Leeds, in the vale of the Derwent, and the 

 level regions south of York. They are still more frequent in 

 Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, and may be said to 

 abound amidst the true Anglians of Norfolk and Suffolk. 

 The physical characters here traced cannot be, as Dr Prichard 

 conjectures in a parallel case in Germany, the effect of some 

 centuries of residence in towns, for they are spread like an 

 epidemic among the rural and secluded population as much 

 as among the dwellers in towns. Unless we suppose such 

 varieties of appearance to spring up among the blue-eyed 

 races, we must regard them as a legacy from the Roman 

 colonists and the older Britons, among whom, as already 

 stated, the Iberian element was conjecturally admitted. 



a Adopting this latter view, there is no difficulty in regard 

 to the other groups. They are of North German and Scan- 

 dinavian origin, and the men of Yorkshire inherit the physi- 

 cal organization and retain many of the peculiarities of lan- 

 guage of their adventurous sires. In the words employed, in 



