[148] For a masterly account of the varying stature in Britain and Ireland, see Dr. Beddoe’s Essay, “Anthrop. Soc. Mem.” iii. p. 384–573.
[149] “τοὺς μὲν Ἀκυϊτανοὺς τελέως ἐξηλλαγμένους οὐ τῇ γλώττῃ μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς σώμασιν, ἐμφερεῖς Ἰβήρεσι μᾶλλον ἢ Γαλάταις· τοὺς δὲ λοιποὺς Γαλατικοὺς μὲν τὴν ὄψιν, ὁμογλώττους δ’ οὐ πάντας, ἀλλ’ ἐνίους μικρὸν παραλλαττόντας ταῖς γλώτταις.”—Lib. iv. c. 1, §1.
[150] The correspondence of my map, [Fig. 68], with that of M. Broca, is one of those undesigned coincidences which are so valuable in arriving at truth, for his most admirable essay on the Ethnology of France did not come into my hands until my own map was engraved. M. Broca takes a different point of view to that advanced in these pages, holding that the Celts were dark and the Belgic were blue-eyed tall Kymri or Cimbri. The Celts known to history were undoubtedly a tall fair race.
[151] In treating this difficult subject, I have purposely omitted to use the uncertain light of philology. We may expect to derive as much knowledge as to the relations between Tyrrhenian, Ligurian, Basque, and other obscure non-Aryan peoples from the study of languages, as we have already obtained of the Aryans by the same means. It is very probable that, like the Sanscrit, the Basque roots will be found widely spread both in Asia, Asia Minor, Europe, and N. Africa.
[152] “Anthrop. Mem.” Vols. i. and iii. (Crania Britannica.)
[153] See Huxley’s “Critiques and Addresses,” p. 167 et seq.
[154] “Rutilæ Caledoniam habitantium comæ, magni artus Germanicam originem asseverant.” Agricola, c. xi.
[155] “Reliquiæ Diluvianæ,” p. 82 et seq.
[156] Schmerling, “Recherches sur les Ossements Fossiles découverts dans les Cavernes de la province de Liége.” 4to. 1833–4, p. 29 et seq.
[157] Dupont, “L’Homme pendant les âges de la Pierre, dans les environs de Dinant-sur-Meuse,” p. ix. The implements are palæolithic (see p. 22), but there is no evidence that they are of the same antiquity as the human remains. They may be, and probably are, much older.