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General characteristics -- The Iberian race -- Linguistic / survivals -- Brython and Goidel -- Roman conquest -- Irish occupation of / Wales -- Their expulsion by Cunedda -- Saxon occupation of Britain -- Causes / of subjection of the Celtic races -- The Celt in the Englishman of / to-day -- Divisions of Wales.
IT cannot be said that the Welsh have any very marked external characteristics to distinguish them from the English. But there is certainly among them a greater prevalence of dark hair and eyes, and they are smaller in build. This is due to the Iberian blood flowing in the stock which occupied the mountain land from a time before history began, at least in these isles. It is a stock so enduring, that although successive waves of conquest and migration have passed over the land, and there has been an immense infiltration of foreign blood, yet it asserts itself as one of predominant and indestructible vitality.