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mainly Celts.* But in the first place people who live in pent-up 

 mountains tend rather to be smaller as a rule. The Swiss 

 mountaineers are not at all large people, nor are the Tyrolese and 

 Piedmontese. 



Colonel Alves. — The Teuton race is generally rather stolid : you 

 will find this characteristic in the North of Ireland, and amongst 

 the Norwegians, and so are the lowland Scotch ; on the other hand, 

 the more dark-haired races are of fiery temperament. 



Mr. PiLKiNGTON. — I would like to make one remark of interest 

 about this very subject. I attended some years ago a lecture by 

 Professor Wilson in Scotland, who was the first to introduce 

 the notion of our Israelitish origin. Some Jews got up with the 

 idea of confuting his arguments, and one of them took the same 

 point spoken of ; but he showed that Leah was dark and Rachel was 

 as fair as any fair woman in England. Another Jew who tried to 

 confront Professor Wilson asked him. How do you make out it is 

 possible that we English can be descended from the Israelites when 

 the prophet says, " The people shall dwell alone and not be numbered 

 amongst the nations " 1 The apt reply of Professor Wilson's was, 

 " Who can count the dust of Jacob ? " I wish to say this paper is 

 a very interesting one. I had no idea such an interesting paper 

 would be produced. It just shows what a wonderful book the 

 Bible is, and if only people would uphold it how wide is its testimony 

 to meet every aspect of life. 



I greatly value this Society ; I have never regretted coming into 

 it. In respect of the difficulties of this paper and of those likely to 

 follow, I think there will be much room for study. 



Professor Orchard. — We cannot separate without expressing our 

 thanks — our hearty thanks — to the learned and erudite author of this 

 paper, who has taken us on a tour through many countries and ages 

 and has shown us what I may call almost a photographic view of 

 the principal philological and historical features of Gomer, his sons, 

 and Thogarmah. The more our knowledge increases the more we 

 find difficulties connected with the Bil)le to vanish. It has been so 

 with the history of the Creation. Only the other day I met an 

 .•icquaintancc, a Professor, who mentioned that there was an 



* Some of the clans are not Celts, as, foi- e.\ain))le, the (iordons.- — E. H. 



