. 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. nish—EastAnglians—The Midlanders—The Welsh—Giraldus de Barry on the Welsh character—TheYorkshire character—The Northumbrians—Lowland Scotland—The tall Galloway people—The Highlands and Islands—Character of the Gaelic-speaking people—The Highlanderphysically—Other Celtic types—Scandinavian types—The Islanders—The Irish people-General characteristics of British—Seriousness and
. 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. nish—EastAnglians—The Midlanders—The Welsh—Giraldus de Barry on the Welsh character—TheYorkshire character—The Northumbrians—Lowland Scotland—The tall Galloway people—The Highlands and Islands—Character of the Gaelic-speaking people—The Highlanderphysically—Other Celtic types—Scandinavian types—The Islanders—The Irish people-General characteristics of British—Seriousness and industry—Athletic sports—Enterpriseand solidity—Not imaginative or idealising—Reticence and coldness—Truth and freedom. IN our own clays, the British people,—as wemust, for want of a better name, call theinhabitants of the British Islands,—are farfrom being homogeneous. To say nothingof the distinctions of English-man, Scotchman, Irishman,Welshman, who that knows them will saythat the distinctions between a WestCountry man and a Kentish man, a Stafford-shire man and an East Anglian, a York-shireman and a Northumbrian, are few orslight; or that a Lowland Scotchman is 33. Complexityof origin. I THE BRITONS OF TO-DAY. 39 very like a Higlilander, or a Hebridean, or a Slietlaiider ; or tliat Ulster,Connanght, Leinster, and Munster do not represent perfectly distinguish-able types ?? The fact is, that fusion of these different varieties of Briton hasreally been in extensive operation but a short time, compared with the
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