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Ethnographique du Globe, ou Classification des Peuples 

 ciens et Modetnes d'apres leurs Larnjues ; precede d'un 



Atlas 

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Discours sur V Utilitc et V Importance de T Etude des Langues 

 appliquees a plusieurs branches des Connoissances Hu^ 

 maines; d'un Apergu sur les May ens Graphiques employes 

 par les differ ens Peuples de la Terre ; d'un Coup-d'oeil sur 

 VHistoire de la Langue Slave et sur la marche progressive 

 de la Civilisation en Russie, avec environ sept-cents Voca- 

 bulaires des principaux Idiomes connus; et suivi du Tableau 

 Physique, Moral et Politique des cinq Parties du Monde; 

 dMe d V Empereur Alexandre, par Adrien Balbi, Professeur 

 de Geographic, de Physique, et de Mathtmatiques. Un 

 vol. in folio, et un vol. in oct°. Prix 30 francs, Chez Rey 

 et Gravier, quai des Augustins. 



Languages, in the permanency of their characters, their 

 analogies and mutual relation, contain the history of every 

 people : essential guides in the labyrinth of the descent of 

 nations, the study of them is indispensable to all who 

 would investigate the races from whence nations have 

 sprung, or who would undertake their methodical arrange- 

 ment. 



M. Adrien Balbi, already advantageously known by his 

 Compendio di Giogi^aphia universale, and his Essai Statistique 

 sur le Royaume de Portugal, has profited by the researches 

 of the most distinguished philologists to complete a work of 

 which no previous example existed, but of the first impor- 

 tance in a variety of questions which relate to History, Geo- 

 graphy, and Philology. Discarding hypothesis, and un- 

 influenced by system, he has united, under the title of the 

 Atlas Ethnographique du Globe, all the well-established facts 

 which the study of languages, alike vast and difficult, had 

 previously made known. With discretion to doubt, where 

 many others would unhesitatingly decide, he rarely if ever 

 conducts to error ; and reasoning skilfully, wherever the 

 facts are sufficient to bear him out, his discussions are calcu- 

 lated to place probabilities in the clearest light. Undismayed 

 by the innumerable difficulties, which presented themselves 

 at every step in the execution of his prodigious undertaking, 

 he has classed all the known languages, according to their 

 analogies or differences, in groupes, rcgnes, and families ; 

 these latter are again subdivided into langues, dialectes, 

 souS'dialectes, varietes, and patois. The connexion of the 

 principal divisions of Ethnography is traced with the leading 



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