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colonists in the south-east of Transylvania about the .middle of the 
thirteenth century. The present inhabitants of Hungary have the repu- 
tation of being the handsomest people of Europe but this is only true of 
the upper classes who have, probably, as in Turkey, been much altered by 
intermarriages for generations with the native races. The peasants show 
strong marks of Tartar origin in their short stature, round, pointed heads, 
rising in a line with the back of the neck, oblique eyes, and straight hair. 
IV. 
On the Subsidence which has taken place in the South Western 
Counties of England during the Eecent Period. Third Paper. 
By E. W. Claypole, B.A., B.Sc. 
Read at the Annual Meeting, May 2nd, 1872. 
The subject was introduced by a short geological description of Cornwall 
and West Devon. 
These counties cannot be considered as among the most ancient in the 
Island. They did not emerge from the ocean until toward the close of the 
Palaeozoic age. The Devonian and Carboniferous beds of which they 
mainly consist are probably continuous with those in the S.W. of Ireland, 
the intervening channel being the result of subsequent erosion. About 
that date, however, either by upheaval or depression or both, a vast synclinal 
trough was formed the direction of which is nearly East and West, on the 
north side the slates dip to the south and on the south they dip to the 
north. Following this by an interval whose length is unknown but 
occurring somewhere in the vast gap that separates the Carboniferous from 
the Triassic Rocks came volcanic action in the form of a great intrusion of 
liquid granite from below. Taking in all probability a line of weakness 
not exactly parallel to the synclinal axis but rather more inclined to the 
meridian, it lifted and broke through the overlying beds and now appears 
at the surface forming the six granite islands of Dartmoor, Liskeard, 
Hensbarrow or St. Austell, Redruth or Cam Menelez, Land's End and 
Scilly. To these Lundy may perhaps be an outlier. 
