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of the Shannon, and the stature there to be somewhat less 
than that attained in other parts of Ireland. But Connaught 
and Munster are the tw T o tallest districts of Ireland, and Con¬ 
naught has the fewest dark people. It seems likely that the 
Iberian element was more generally diffused in Ireland than 
in England and Scotland, and became, in consequence, more 
complete and evenly absorbed by the Gael. Leinster can 
hardly owe its specially large proportion of dark people to an 
unusual abundance of Iberians, but rather to the An"lo- 
Norman barons and their retainers who landed with, and 
after, “ Strongbow,” and to other immigrants from England 
and Wales. Turning to England, we find the distribution of 
the dark people much more complicated. Of course the 
difficulty is to account for the presence of so large a number 
of dark-liaired people in the district east of a line drawn from 
north-west Lincolnshire to the western border of Hampshire, 
and to explain the contrast between the abundance of dark- 
liaired people in Lincolnshire and their fewness in East 
Yorkshire—two districts generally considered equally and 
exclusively Anglian and Scandinavian. The supposition of a 
specially large survival of the Iberian element in these eastern 
counties south of the Humber is a singularly unlikely one. 
And the influence of the immigration of Norman, French, or 
Walloon artisans—supposing them to have been more dark 
than fair—would be chiefly shown in and near London, in 
Norwich, and in other towns, and would not account for the 
fact that neither London nor Norfolk is so dark as Lincoln¬ 
shire. On the other hand, there seems to be little doubt that 
the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Scandinavians, who are known 
to have settled thickly in these counties, and whose descend¬ 
ants are unanimously supposed to be more numerous in 
them than in the counties to the west, were fair people. 
The most probable explanation of this curious prevalence 
of dark people in the more Teutonic counties of England 30 
30 It must be remembered that the counties having the smallest per¬ 
centage of fair persons are also in the eastern half of England. They 
are Leicester, Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex, and Hertford. Next to them 
are Lincolnshire, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Warwick, and Worcester. 
