any material change, are still a people peculiar sand distinct
from a lk th b other inhabitants of. the e©top%ies^Pn ; the Eower
Danube: The coinmon Wallach, as we are infoiipied by a late
traveller,; differs in a, decided manner ‘from the Magyar- ; i f
Hungarian* as well as -from the Slaves and Germans who inhabit
the borders: of Hungary. They are generally below the
middle height, thin, and5 Rightly built. Their features-are
often finely shaped, their noses arched, theirnyes;dark' th fe
hair long, black, and wavy: their countenances are; often Expressive
of cunning and timidity. They seldom display the
dull, heavyilook of thh Slovak, and still uifiEi rarely^ thespriid
carriage of the Magyar.
Mr. Paget was struck by the resemblance which the present
Wallachs "bear to the sculptured figures of ancient Dacianslto
be seen on Trajan’s pillar, which are remarkable f i l i n g and
flowing beards.'*
Paragraph 2.—Of the Albaniansj; t f
The Albanians are very different people in physical character
from the Wallachs. They have been fully,described
by M. Pouqueville, from whom I cite the fpffowingi^g^i?»
sages:
“ The Albanians, who may be called the^Sgythians ofr^ie
Turkish empire, have but few wants. Their, houses are nothing
more th an .a ground floor: they sleep upon mats n r thick
cloaks. Little sensible to the variations of the-atmosphere,
they lead a life equally laborious through, the;
Easily .contented, they live principally on milk,.cheese* eggs,
olives, and vegetables; they eat oecasionally.salt fish. Sometimes
they bake bread, but often eat their comormaize
boiled. Their common drink is wine. This is the fare of the
country people: the dwellers in towns are better fed.
The Albanian shepherds, likewise warriors, are clothed in
coarse woollen stuffs. Sober and active, they are content when
on journeys or at their labour with a little boiled rice or corn;:
singing and dancing are their relaxations- from fatigue, and a
* Paget’s Travels in Hungary and Transylvania, vol. ii. p, 189, et geq.
Lond. 1839.
band of soldiers is seldom seen without a mandolin-player
and a singed they have often besides a story-teller.
“ A veryigrè'at diffe rent!is^bsei-vablc betweèn the native
Albanians and the Greeks who are inhabitants of towns m
their country. Hi^pbcrates remarked that mountaineers are
tall in stature, courageous, and laborious. Such are the
Albanians : they$àre!seldom less than five feet nine inches in
héi’gbt, and 'are^ very, strong and muscular. They have ova
faces,4arge mustachos, a ruddy colour in their cheeks, a brisk
animated eye, a well-proportioned mouth, and fine teeth.
, Their neck -isrlèng and thin, then chest broad: their legs
are slfender, withwery little calf.- 1 1 1
• “ The women who bring this ’race of semi-barbarians into
the world partake* in the vigour of their; organization. They
do ttokbvéiH thetindolence off haresls, .but labour hard, and
net-lels than the men earn their bread with the sweat of their
brow, and frequently share’the" dangM* encountered by their
W W I Their fe a tu re s a rc ^ b h g : their muscles
firing a nd endowed "with great elasticity'they are little subject
to disëà%ÿhnd-preserve the frêshnëss -o’f youth much longer
lilM B W S M Greece. Thè^céfetinu^to become mothers
till an-equally advanced period of life with the women m the
Ü Ü northern counteiès. f f l i lM ùpon^the sam^ | g g
with theh’husbands, ure like them clothed with coarse5woollen
‘garments, ànd often march with their fegs naked durmg the
. moêbrigorousIcold of Albanian winters.’’«' ’
the Albanians arë said to be remarkable
for fair or flaxen hah and blue eyes* but it has not been
observed whether these families are distinguishable in dialect
from those who d&jffay a different complexion.
Paragraph 3,^-Of the, Gree;ks..?il|
p The ancient writers have made ^ to le ra b ly wÜk acquainted
with the physiognomy and other personal characteristics of the
Greeks. The epithets'of ^ a v B o l , i r v p p o ï , K v a v o%a i r a i } yX a vK ü JW L ë e ç ,
and many others, indicate that the* same variety of complexion
existed formerly among the Greeks, which we recognise m
F. Ritter.von Xylander, ubi supra, s. 291.