The lower classes especially have, time out of mind, been recruited largely from the Highlands, which supplied chairmen, porters, and cawdies to Edinburgh, as Ireland did to Bath. Except in these localities, I have endeavored to avoid noticing them. While attending professionally to the poor of the Cowgate, I became convinced that these Irish differed much less, as to the forms of their crania and features, from the lower classes of the Scotch, than is generally supposed. This is explicable by the mainly Celtic origin of the latter. As a rule, the malar bones in these Irish are less developed laterally than in the Scotch, and the features altogether are less prononce.
Black hair is particularly common.
I regret having penetrated so little among the Glaswegian hills. About Dumfries and Castledouglas the names, and in my opinion, the complexions and features, bespeak a mixed population of Galwegians and Teutonic Borderers. Is it not remarkable, that, while most of the Celtic dialects, viz. I mean squarish and anrrow foreheads, prominent glabellae, eyes rather deep in the head, broad prominent cheek-bones and narrow angular chins. Nairn is still a boundary town, as it was in the days of King James, when the folk at t'ae end o'the toun culd na understand the folk at the tither.