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more immediately in tlie tide of the ingi'ess of tlie Cau- 

 casian, where the purest current has latest flowed, and 

 the climate is more suitable, and also in some of the ma- 

 ritime districts, where the air is moister, and to which 

 they haA^e been seaborn at a later period, the Caucasian 

 character is still prominent. Something of this, yet not 

 so general, is occurring in Britain, where the fair bright- 

 blooded race is again giving place to the darker and more 

 sallow. This may, however, be partly occasioned by 

 more of artificial heat and shelter and other consequences 

 of higher ci^dlization. There seems to be something con- 

 nected with confinement and sedentary life, with morbid 

 action of the liver, or respiratory or transpiratory organs, 

 which 4e»d to this change under dry and hot, and espe- 

 cially confined atmosphere. Perhaps imagination is also 

 a worker here; and the colour most regarded, as snow in 

 cold countries, black among colliers, white among 

 bleachers, or even the dark colour of dress, may produce 

 its peculiar impression, and our much looked-up-to Cal- 

 vinistic priesthood, from the pulpit, disseminate darkness 

 as well as light. 



Our own Kelt has indubitably improved much since, 

 par necessite^ he took to the mountain; but, though 

 steadily enduring, when there is mental excitement, he 

 has acquired a distaste to dull hopeless unceasing labour, 

 and would fare scantily and lie hard, rather than submit 

 to the monotonous industry of the city operative, or the 

 toil of the agricultural drudge. Though once a fugitive, 

 the Kelt is now, in moral courage and hardihood, equal 



