that of chimpanzee. Small, slender, and dry, with eyes of jet, and a sallow skin, his cheek-bones are acute, his lips thin, and his expression keen and wild; the small head being covered with long shining straight locks of coal-black hair. Take the handsomest specimen of these men of Ind; clap a turban on his head, and a pair of loose cotton trowsers on his heels, and he might pass for some Tartar or Afghan. A woman of the same descent, with a few black rags of ostrich feathers and a silk bonnet, would hardly be distinguished from our purest specimens of gypsies. Yet, in general, the physiognomy is far from disagreeable; melancholy, yet resolute, and commonly intelligent, whenever, at least, the possessor is engaged in active life. If otherwise, nothing can well look more averse to thinking or action than the face of a dark Highlander, as you may often see him by a dyke side in the rain, or lounging by his crazy and neglected boat on the sea-shore. Though the stature is small, the limbs are well formed, and the muscles marked by power and activity. There are few who can row against a practised Highlander, either for strength

or time. I have often been obliged to keep my boat's crew at the oar for twelve, and even fifteen hours in a heavy sea, without rest or relief. A walking Highlander will perform his fifty or sixty miles in a day; and when it is done, he will probably be found lounging about among his friends, instead of resting himself, ready to begin again the next day." "If we meet with power, and with beauty of stature and form, under various aspects, it is always greater as the Norse leaven predominates, or when the hair is not black, and the eyes are blue or fair. In fact, the Gothic race has done for the Highlands just what it has done for England. It is the same in France, where almost all the beauty of the nation is comprised in Normandy." *

In Moray, on the eastern coast, it has been observed, that the people of some part of that country are remarkable for a larger size, and different formation, of the head; and it is said that the difference of size would be found so great, that a hat, which fitted the head of a Highlander, or an En

*Vol. iv. pp. 254, 255, 256.