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Notes on the Evidence bearing 
enquired of an esteemed member of tliis Club, having a large 
medical practice at Colchester, as to the amount of injury to 
nervous system, &c., caused by the earthquake, we were in¬ 
formed that it had been practically nothing, owing to the 
unexcitable character of the inhabitants of the damaged 
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district. Among the English-speaking but mainly Celtic 
districts of the west, the maps show us that the proportion 
of dark people is the same in Cornwall as in Suffolk, in 
Ayrshire and Galloway as in Norfolk. Now Ayrshire and 
Galloway were the head-quarters of those stern religious en¬ 
thusiasts, the Covenanters, while in Cornwall were achieved 
some of the greatest successes of Wesleyanism. If we turn 
from these far-apart but equally Celtic districts to the espe¬ 
cially Teutonic counties of East Anglia, we find that in no part 
of England did Wesley meet with more discouragement than in 
the diocese of Norwich, which includes Norfolk and Suffolk. 
Dr. Jessopp, in his ‘ Diocesan History of Norwich,’ remarks 
that Wesley appears to have been shocked and horrified by 
the reception accorded him in East Anglia, his journal being 
full of lamentations at the perverseness and fickleness of the 
people. For not only did Wesley find it difficult to arouse 
religious emotion in the breasts of the East Anglians, but 
their enthusiasm also tended to cool with unprecedented 
rapidity. In three years his Society had almost dwindled 
away, and he writes:—“I have seen no people in all England 
so changeable as this.” And Dr. Jessopp, whose thorough 
acquaintance with this district is unquestionable, remarks 
that “the cold and lethargic temperament of the East Anglian 
people is not easily stirred to enthusiasm; soon roused to 
hatred, they are very slow to love, and the emotional in them 
seems to be reached only through their resentment.” This 
evidence as to temperament thus amply confirms the conclu¬ 
sions derived from the labours of Mr. Seebolnn and those of 
the Anthropometric Committee, that to the mingling of the 
dark and fair Teutons, and not of fair Teutons with Celti- 
berians, the dark element of our eastern counties is mainly 
due. 
