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Strabo, however, assists us by a word : be says, in describing 
the Britons, that "their stature was taller than the Gauls, 
and their hair less red/' Now we cannot believe that the 
people who inhabited France were red-haired from all time, 
seeing as we do that they have since become black-haired, 
and the size of these two races are in every respect the 
antipodes of the other. Mr. Greenwell adds a link to this 
chain, by having found a plaited tress of hair in a vase 
buried in a tumulus at Pickering, which was auburn, or more 
German than the red. Now the Gauls can be traced from 
India to England, and the Calmucks are said to be red-haired 
men to this day. They were conquerors, who overran Asia 
and Europe, and settled in France, because the land extended 
no farther, but they were not the C3mesians. There has 
always been the race of people in Europe who have the 
distinguishing characteristic of a clear white complexion and 
jet black hair, rather small in stature, with slight muscular 
development ; and the people with this coloured hair is still 
prevailing in France, Italy, and Greece. How can we 
account for this, unless it is the consequence of the black- 
haired race having been the aboriginal people who occupied 
that territory, as the light-haired people occupied Germany, 
and that their conquerors did not bring wives with them, but 
from preference took the black-haired women they found in 
the country, as the red-haired men have always done since 
the days of Acis and Galatea, and in a few generations the 
original stock prevailed ? This has been the fate of invading 
armies in general, where they have not expelled the first 
inhabitants. And what has been the case in the British 
Islands ? There are well-known black-haired and red-haired 
races in England, Wales, and Scotland, who are supposed to 
have been driven to the extremities of the island by the 
conquering German and Scandinavian races, who were light- 
haired or brown. Those who were expelled from the interior 
