Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University press · leaf 379
lities, besides his own, who settled invillages well known in the 8th century. The characterof the race must have been largely affected by thisinfiltration of foreign blood, and in the fair hair and blueeyes that one sees especially in North Italy we may tracethe mixture of northern races with the… … CHAPTER XV VENICE The only people on the west of the Adriatic who stillprofessed obedience to the Eastern empire in the9th century were the Venetians, who wisely preferred adistant and nominal sovereign to an active one close athand. When Pepin descended with his Franks to therescue of the Pope,…
