Concerning some other derivations Taylor continues: “Of Gothic blood scarcely less pure than that of the Spanish Hidalgos, are the Cagots of Southern France, a race of outcast pariahs, who in every village live apart, executing every vile or disgraceful kind of toil, and with whom the poorest peasant refuses to associate. These Cagots are the descendants of those Spanish Goths, who, on the invasion of the Moors, fled to Aquitaine, where they were protected by Charles Martel. But the reproach of Arianism clung to them, and religious bigotry branded them with the name _câ gots_ or ‘Gothic Dogs.’ a name which still clings to them, and keeps them apart from their fellow-men.” Elsewhere we find the following: “The fierce and intolerant Arianism of the Visigothic conquerors of Spain has given us another word. The word Visigoth has become Bigot, and thus on the imperishable tablets of language the Catholics have handed down to perpetual infamy the name and nation of their persecutors.” 193 : 14 _seq._ _Cf._ DeLapouge, _L’Aryen_, p. 343, where he says that the exodus of the Conquistadores was fatal to Spain. 193 : 17. Rice Holmes, 2; and the note to p. 69 of this book. 194 : 1. See the note to p. 173. 194 : 8. Ridgeway, 1, p. 372, says: “We know from Strabo and other writers that the Aquitani were distinctly Iberian.” Consult also Rice Holmes, 2, p. 12, where he quotes Cæsar. 194 : 14 _seq._ Ridgeway, _op. cit._, pp. 372 and 395; Ripley, chap. VII, pp. 137 _seq._ 194 : 19 _seq._ Rice Holmes, 2, under Belgæ, pp. 5, 12, 257, 259, 304–305, 308–309, 311, 315, 318–325; and _Ancient Britain_, p. 445. The modern composition of the French population has been investigated by Edmond Bayle and Dr. Leon MacAuliffe, who find that there is decided race mixture, with chestnut pigmentation of hair and eyes predominating. Blond traits were found to be almost confined to the north and east, while brunet characters prevail in the south. Pure black hair is exceedingly rare. 195 : 14. Vanderkindere, _Recherches sur l’Ethnologie de la Belgique_, pp. 569–574; Rice Holmes, 2, p. 323; Beddoe, 4, pp. 21 _seq._ and 72. 195 : 18. Ridgeway, 1, p. 373; Ripley, p. 127; Rice Holmes, 2; and Feist, 5, p. 14. 195 : 25 _seq._ Franks of the lower Rhine. Eginhard, in his _Life of Charlemagne_, p. 7, states the following: “There were two great divisions or tribes of the Franks, the Salians, deriving their name probably from the river Isala, the Yssel, who dwelt on the lower Rhine, and the Ripuarians, probably from _Ripa_, a bank, who dwelt about the banks of the middle Rhine. The latter were by far the most numerous, and spread over a greater extent of country; but to the Salians belongs the glory of founding the great Frankish kingdom under the royal line of the Merwings” (Merovingians). 196 : 2 _seq._ Ripley, p. 157; DeLapouge, _passim_.