Oeographical Collections. 



The adjectives do not change their genders. The personal pronouns are, 

 I, Mee. We, Mechom. 



Thou, Ah. You, Ancon. 



He, Kanke. They, Kambai. 



Possessive Pronouns. 

 My head, Hazee am. 

 Thy hand, Djuago an. 

 His house, Sodo mako. 

 This vocabulary proves that the Fellatahs are not of Arabian origin, as pre- 

 tended by a writer in the Revue Britannique for January 1829, nor of Berber 

 origin, as Mr. Mollien appears to think. This nation apparently descended 

 from the elevated plateau where the Niger takes its origin, and whose climate 

 appears to be temperate. As the Fellatahs neighbour on Abyssinia, it is proba- 

 ble that they have some relation with the Fallaschas of that country. Bruce 

 says that the latter are Jews, and speak the ancient Ethiopian language, but this 

 language is very little known. The negro idioms have a particular character. An 

 examination of the language of Tibbou, Boumou, Haoussa, and Timbuctoo, prove 

 that they have no declensions either for the genders or for the plural number. Per- 

 haps even their verbs are not conjugated. If we compared the language of the 

 Tuaryckes which inhabit the north, and that of the Fellatahs to the south, with 

 the simple and uncultivated idiom of Soudan, perhaps we should find that there 

 exists as much difference between the languages of Africa, as between the co- 

 lours of its inhabitants, and that, like them, they may be divided into white and 

 black. This examination might throw a great light on the history of the deve- 

 lopment of the human species. 



Situation and Rural Economy of the Kirgheses of Omsk. By the Sotnick 



of Cossacks Makhonin These Kirgheses, about thirty years ago, lived with 



their flocks out of, but not far &om the frontiers of Russia ; but the want of sub- 

 ordination to their chiefs, and the disastrous incursions to which their topogra- 

 phical and social situation exposed them, determined them to subject themselves 

 for always to Russia. Government assigned to them a sufficient extent of Steps, 

 when gradually they increased to the present number of 3900 individuals of both 

 sexes. In the deplorable state to which they were almost all reduced, they first 

 sought to gain a subsistence by working for the Russians, then their lot gradu- 

 ally bettered, more especially by bringing up cattle, the only kind of economy 

 which they were acquainted with, and for which these nomades appear to be born. 

 Their flocks increased successively to the present period ; and this tribe of 3900 

 souls possesses 27,080 horses, 5285 horned beasts, and more than 450,000 sheep. 

 These Kirgheses are further, rich in carpets, stuffs, and other domestic effects, 

 and objects of dress in use among the people of Asia. 



On several points of the line in which are placed the Russian military posts, 

 some of the rich Kirghese have made, and continue to make, with more or less 

 success, a certain number of agricultural attempts. The example which the no» 

 inadic tribes have before their eyes of the happy, and often rapid, progress which 

 the Cossacks make in agriculture and in several branches of European rural 

 economy, fixes more and more the attention of the nomadic tribes of these coun- 

 tries, stimulates their intelligence, tends to tear them £rom their vagabond life 

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