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with the fouling of females . Strzelecki found that where a Papuan woman in Australia had intercourse with an Englishman she ceased to bear children afterwards to Papuan men , and it is this operation which has most powerfully contributed to the extinction of the Australians . This is a phenomena not as yet recorded m ^ action upon various races , and the laws of which are nob ascertained . A mare or she ass will bear successively to a horse or a he ass ; but if a mare has intercourse with a mule she ceases to bear to the horse .
This is a fact well enough kn own to muleteers ; and a mule which has once attempted a mare , is shot to prevent him from injuring other mares . While , however , the whole laws of generation are as yet little known to us , because not fully investigated , there is evidence enough to show that a mixed race is difficult of maintenance . ¦ .. ¦>' . In our owii islands there is much evidence of this to be found .
The Norman invasion in its first onset and its subsequent operations , brought into the island a large body of foreigners called Normans . They included Normans of Norse descent , Normans and Bretons of Celtic descent , and Germani from , many parts of the north of Erance , the Netherlands and North Germany . They may be divided into two classes— -Celts and Germans . Manv of the latter '
must have been strictly assimilable to the English population ; but in the later period of the immigration tlie Celtic element was the larger . Of the lower class of Normans or Norman soldiers , many diedunmarried ; of the higher some returned to . the continent , but a large body remained , who , after a time , intermarried with the English .
The result is well known to genealogists . The baronial families are recognized as having become nearly extinct before three centuries . The like fate attended most of the lesser nobles ; and the descendants of Normans among the English gentry , in the present day ., are comparatively few In number ; when these so designated Norman
families come to be investigated , they are found to be mostly of the race of Weclen , as the Harcourts , Eitzhamons , Hamiltons , & c , or otherwise of Germanic origin ; and all of them have received such an accession of English blood by successive intermarriages , in some twenty-five generations , that their share of Norman blood is fractional , and for the effect , they might quite as well have had a negro progenitor as a Norman one .
What became of the Normans in Sicily , where they were once so powerful , is not worth entering upon in detail . In the time of Elizabeth , a large immigration of protestant refugees , called Walloons , but consisting of Netherlander ^ and Celts , took place ; and so great was it , that many of the towns in the east of England
had a third of the population Walloons , and others a notable proportion , so that many Walloon churches were set up and long maintained . Of these Walloons tho history has boon written , and the result is this , that in the present day , hardly a Walloon is to be traced . How large was the immigration of . French protcstants after the revocation , of tlie edict of Nantes is well known , and that Spttalfields and
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Anglo-Saxon History Illustrated By Topog...
with the fouling of females . Strzelecki found that where a Papuan woman in Australia had intercourse with an Englishman she ceased to bear children afterwards to Papuan men , and it is this operation which has most powerfully contributed to the extinction of the Australians . This is a phenomena not as yet recorded m ^ action upon various races , and the laws of which are nob ascertained . A mare or she ass will bear successively to a horse or a he ass ; but if a mare has intercourse with a mule she ceases to bear to the horse .
This is a fact well enough kn own to muleteers ; and a mule which has once attempted a mare , is shot to prevent him from injuring other mares . While , however , the whole laws of generation are as yet little known to us , because not fully investigated , there is evidence enough to show that a mixed race is difficult of maintenance . ¦ .. ¦>' . In our owii islands there is much evidence of this to be found .
The Norman invasion in its first onset and its subsequent operations , brought into the island a large body of foreigners called Normans . They included Normans of Norse descent , Normans and Bretons of Celtic descent , and Germani from , many parts of the north of Erance , the Netherlands and North Germany . They may be divided into two classes— -Celts and Germans . Manv of the latter '
must have been strictly assimilable to the English population ; but in the later period of the immigration tlie Celtic element was the larger . Of the lower class of Normans or Norman soldiers , many diedunmarried ; of the higher some returned to . the continent , but a large body remained , who , after a time , intermarried with the English .
The result is well known to genealogists . The baronial families are recognized as having become nearly extinct before three centuries . The like fate attended most of the lesser nobles ; and the descendants of Normans among the English gentry , in the present day ., are comparatively few In number ; when these so designated Norman
families come to be investigated , they are found to be mostly of the race of Weclen , as the Harcourts , Eitzhamons , Hamiltons , & c , or otherwise of Germanic origin ; and all of them have received such an accession of English blood by successive intermarriages , in some twenty-five generations , that their share of Norman blood is fractional , and for the effect , they might quite as well have had a negro progenitor as a Norman one .
What became of the Normans in Sicily , where they were once so powerful , is not worth entering upon in detail . In the time of Elizabeth , a large immigration of protestant refugees , called Walloons , but consisting of Netherlander ^ and Celts , took place ; and so great was it , that many of the towns in the east of England
had a third of the population Walloons , and others a notable proportion , so that many Walloon churches were set up and long maintained . Of these Walloons tho history has boon written , and the result is this , that in the present day , hardly a Walloon is to be traced . How large was the immigration of . French protcstants after the revocation , of tlie edict of Nantes is well known , and that Spttalfields and