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In each of the foregoing the collateral lines are finally brought into 

 and merged in the lineal line, which is a fundamental characteristic of 

 the system. Tiiis also gives the tenth indicative feature. Certain 

 relationships are here called " indicative," because they determine 

 those which precede and follow them ; and because they embrace so 

 much which is radical and fundamental, that, when they are found 

 present in different systems of relationship, the identity of these sys- 

 tems may be considered established. 



The Seneca-Ii'oquois system of consanguinity and affinity, as given in 

 the Table, now prevails, with modifications, in upwards of seventy 

 Indian nations. Its radical characteristics are found in their several 

 systems with such striking exactness as apparently to leave no doubt 

 that it was derived into each stock-language with the blood from a 

 common original source. 



Another fact, not less significant, remains to be mentioned, namely, 

 that the system of relationship of the people of South-India speaking 

 the Dravidian language, and numbering upwards of twenty-eight mil- 

 lions, is identical, with the exception of two or three unimportant 

 particulars, with the Seneca-Iroquois. The same system, greatly mod- 

 ified by Sanskritic influence, also pi'evails among the people of Noi-th- 

 India speaking the Gaura language, and numbering upwards of one 

 hundred millions ; and also, with further modifications, among the 

 Chinese and Japanese. 



For the purpose of comparison, and also for reference to the Asiatic 

 form in the solution of the origin of the classificatory system, the Sen- 

 eca-Iroqouis and the Tamil systems are placed side by side in the 

 following Table. 



