Identifier: worldsinhabitant00bett (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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DISTRESSED IRISH PEASANTRY. THE BRITONS OF TO-DAY. 53
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lEISH PEAT-GATHEREB. I 54 THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE. darker liaired than in any region of Grreat Britain ; in fact, it resemblesthat of the Auvergne, Savoy, and Northern Italy. Light eyes howevergreatly preponderate. The head is long, low, and narrow. The eye-brows are level, the orbits low and deep. Thus, in racial type, theIrish are very much allied with the true Highland Scotch. Dr. Beddoe hasfound that the Irish upper class have darker eyes, but much lighter hair than the lower classes; thisn • • • is due to the large infusion of English blood in the Irishlanded proprietors and pro-fessional classes. Mixed withthese occur some shorter,darker people, who may be ofIberian race ; and others evenhave a Mongolian or Turanianaspect, and are conjectured tobe of servile origin, perhapsdating back to pre-Celtic an-cestors. South-east Wexford in-cludes people of English race,said to have descended fromsettlers from south Pembroke-Various sliire, which itself isIrish types. ^^^^^ Anglo

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