. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. IRISH PEASANT GIEL, fierceness which sometimes crops up in element, rather than the Celtic ; the Norse being themselves a branch ot the Teutons, of whom the English or Anglo-Saxons are another branch. In extensive districts of Ulster the majority of the people are ofEnglish or Scotch descent, settled there under James I. and Charles I.;but Donegal and other parts are predomin
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. IRISH PEASANT GIEL, fierceness which sometimes crops up in element, rather than the Celtic ; the Norse being themselves a branch ot the Teutons, of whom the English or Anglo-Saxons are another branch. In extensive districts of Ulster the majority of the people are ofEnglish or Scotch descent, settled there under James I. and Charles I.;but Donegal and other parts are predominantly Irish. In West Kerry, where the prevailing type greatly resembles that ot THE BRITONS OF TO-DAY. 55 the Scotch Western Highlands, the men are tall, many of them nearlySIX feet, with square, not broad, shoulders, long heads, prominent squarebrows, flat broad forehead, somewhat receding. Their abun- Highlanddant wavy hair, reddish, dark-brown, or black, grows low on ^^p®-the forehead. The nose is mostly long and pointed, with the long narrowGaehc nostril. A considerable number of these fair people have project-. GOING TO MAKKET. mg jaws. Their eyes are of various shades of grey. The cheek bonesare rather broad, the mouth coarse, the lips thick, and teeth good. Altogether, Dr. Beddoe concludes that the proportion of Englishand Scotch blood in the present inhabitants of Ireland is, probably, notmuch less than a third. He is also of opinion that the Gaelic and Iberianraces of the West, mostly dark-hau:ed, are tending to swamp the blondTeutons of England by a reflux migration. It may be well to review a few important characteristics of the I ?6 THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE. British people, in order that we may the better contrast our own racewith others. Prevalent, throughout both our work and our ^^ ^^^ seriousness and industry. Our play for the most partand has a serious aspect. The object is not to pass the time, butto achieve something, to gain some new
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