In his amusing speech at_ the annual dinner of the Scottish Clans' Association, held in the "real capital of Scotland"—which, as visitors to Edinburgh have not infrequently surmised, is London—Andrew Caird remarked that the average Scot was nearly an inch taller and nearly a_ stone heavier than the average Englishman. From his subsequent remarks in praise of the Highlanders he seemed to infer that they, particularly excel in stature and avoirdupois. If they really do so to-day, it must be because those of them who are left in the Hi lands fare better than their numerous but ill-nourished ancestors.
Johnson roundly declared that London drayman was more than 'a match for the average High-lender. In Carlyle's youthful days Scottish physique was supposed to be at its highest in the southwest, Scotland, and the average height of adult men and women Annandale was said to be equal that of the Grenadier Guards. Industrialism has lowered the standard the more crowded shires, while in Scotland as a whole agricultural decay has reduced the numbers, of those who attain the old rustic standard.
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