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dark people most abound in Aberdeenshire, Elgin, and Banff
(No. 4). In the fifth grade, which includes the districts
having the largest percentage of dark people, no counties of
Scotland or Ireland appear, and in England and Wales they
are distributed in an apparently strange manner. Instead
of being concentrated in and around South Wales, tho
darkest districts are Anglesea and the counties of Carnarvon,
Merioneth, Montgomery, Shropshire, Worcester, Warwick,
Leicester, and Lincoln. South of this belt of country be-
tween Anglesea and Lincolnshire we find equally dark dis-
tricts in the counties of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Bedford,
and Essex ; and south of the Thames in Kent, Sussex, Hamp-
shire, and Berkshire.
Of the fifth map, which shows the distribution of adult
males with light eyes and dark hair, I will only remark that
the counties having tho largest numbers of such persons, or
in other words more than 80 per cent., are Middlesex,
Hertford, Dumfries, and Roxburgh.
It is possible that future observations may slightly modify
the results here given, but in any case these maps sufficiently
suggest that British Ethnology is not quite so simple a thing as
it is popularly supposed to be. If we take stature, or colour
of hair and eyes, we find a much greater diversity in what was
once Roman Britain than in Scotland beyond the Forth, and
in Ireland. And if we take weight, we find in Scotland and
Ireland nothing of the curious mingling of light and heavy
districts that is obvious in England. In Scotland we see the
darkest people concentrated in the district between Inverness
and Aberdeen, which was known in the time of Macbeth as
Moray and Buchan, and was the head-quarters of his power,
a fact which strikingly confirms the opinion of Professor Rhys,
based on other considerations, that Macbeth was the champion
of the Picts, and that the Picts were mainly the dark-haired
pre-Celtic Iberians.29 In Ireland the distribution of the dark
people is remarkable in another way. We should naturally
expect to find tho dark-haired Iberians most numerous west
29 This same district is also that, in Scotland,which contains tho fewest
fair men,