upon British Ethnology. 
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dark people most abound in Aberdeenshire, Elgin, and Banff 
(No. 4). In tlie fiftli grade, which includes the districts 
having the largest percentage of dark people, no counties of 
Scotland or Ireland appear, and in England and Wales they 
are distributed in an apparently strange manner. Instead 
of being concentrated in and around South Wales, the 
darkest districts are Anglesea and the counties of Carnarvon, 
Merioneth, Montgomery, Shropshire, Worcester, Warwick, 
Leicester, and Lincoln. South of this belt of country be¬ 
tween Anglesea and Lincolnshire we find equally dark dis¬ 
tricts in the counties of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Bedford, 
and Essex; and south of the Thames in Kent, Sussex, Hamp¬ 
shire, and Berkshire. 
Of the fifth map, which shows the distribution of adult 
males with light eyes and dark hair, I will only remark that 
the counties having the largest numbers of such persons, or 
in other words more than 30 per cent., are Middlesex, 
Hertford, Dumfries, and Roxburgh. 
It is possible that future observations may slightly modify 
the results here given, but in any case these maps sufficiently 
suggest that British Ethnology is not quite so simple a thing as 
it is popularly supposed to be. If we take stature, or colour 
of hair and eyes, we find a much greater diversity in what was 
once Roman Britain than in Scotland beyond the Forth, and 
in Ireland. And if we take weight, we find in Scotland and 
Ireland nothiug of the curious mingling of light and heavy 
districts that is obvious in England. In Scotland we see the 
darkest people concentrated in the district between Inverness 
and Aberdeen, which was known in the time of Macbeth as 
Moray and Buchan, and was the head-quarters of his power, 
a fact which strikingly confirms the opinion of Professor Rhys, 
based on other considerations, that Macbeth was the champion 
of the Piets, and that the Piets were mainly the dark-haired 
pre-Celtic Iberians. 29 In Ireland the distribution of the dark 
people is remarkable in another way. We should naturally 
expect to find the dark-haired Iberians most numerous west 
29 This same district is also that, in Scotland,which contains the fewest 
fair men, 
