THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

I had little difficulty in discerning amongst them the three principal varieties of Yorkshiremen.  There was the tall, broad-shouldered rustic, whose stalwart limbs, light grey or blue eyes, yellowish hair, and open features indicate the Saxon; there was the Scandinavian, less tall and big, with eyes, hair, and complexion dark, and an intentness in the expression not perceptible in the Saxon face; and last the Celt, short, swarthy, and Irish looking.  The first two appeared to me most numerous in the East and North Ridings, the last in the West.

White/Yorkshire, 1879