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nized," writes Henry James Ford. "The long chin gives a chaacteristic square effect to the lower part of the face. One may notice it in the pictures of Woodrow Wilson and of Andrew Jackson." 1 To these might be added the likeness of General Sam Houston.

Another writer, the Rev. Prof. James Heron, D.D., of Bel.fast, describes the personality of the Scotch-Irish as he sees it:

"An economy and even parsimony of words, which does not always betoken a poverty of ideas; an insuperable dislike to wear his heart upon his sleeve, or make a display of the deeper and more tender feelings of his nature; a quiet and undemonstrative deportment which may have great firmness and determination be.hind it; a dour exterior which may cover a really genial disposition and kindly heart; much caution, wariness, and reserve, but a decision, energy of character, and tenacity of purpose, which, as in the case of Enoch Arden, ‘hold his will and bear it through’; a very decided practical faculty which has an eye on the main chance, but which may co-exist with a deep-lying fund of sentiment; a capacity for hard work and close application to business, which, with thrift and patient persistence, is apt to bear fruit in considerable success; in short, a reserve of strength, self-reliance, courage, and endurance which, when an emergency demands (as behind the Walls of Derry), may surprise the world." 2

1 Henry Jones Ford, The Scotch-Irish in America (Peter Smith, New York, 1941), p. 539.

2 Quoted by Ford in The Scotch-Irish in America, p. 539.

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