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Show There la scarcely a trace of foreign admixture. Occasionally there U a French name which points to a strain of Hujpienot blood from over the mountains in North Carolina, and names of Germans who came down from the Pennsylvania Dutch settlements. Pure Anglo-Saxon Stock Ellen Churchill Semple In the bulletin bulle-tin of the American Geographic society so-ciety says In regard to the Inhabitants of the mountainous regions of southeastern south-eastern Kentucky that they are the purest Anglo-Suxon stock In the United States. There Is practically no intermixture. They are direct descendants de-scendants of the early Virginia ami North Carolina Immigrants. The stock is chiefly English and Scotch-Irish, jvhlch Is largely Teutonic In origin |