30.01.07
The English and their Physique
Bring on the six nations. Listen to what Hugh Miller says about the English physique…
”As tested by the dynamometer, the average strength of the full grown Scot exceeds that of the full-grown Englishman by about one twentieth - to be sure, no very great difference, but quite enough in a prolonged contest, hand to hand, and man to man, with equal skill and courage on both sides, decidely to turn the scale. The result of the conflict at Bannockburn, where according to Barbour, steel rung upon steel for hours … may have a good deal hinged on this purely physical difference.”