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sei, and from the Ural mountains to the Hindoo 

 Koosh, I know not that any evidence exists by 

 which that position could be upset, while the ex- 

 isting state of things is rather in its favour than 

 otherwise. For the Scandinavians, the Germans, 

 the Slavonian and the Finnish tribes, to a great 

 extent; some of the inhabitants of Greece, many 

 Turks, some Kirghis, and some Mantchous, the 

 Ossetes in the Caucasus, the Siahposh, the Eohillas, 

 are at the present day fair, yellow or red haired, 

 and blue-eyed; and the interpolation of tribes of 

 Mongolian hair and complexion, as far west as the 

 Caspian Steppes and the Crimea, might justly be 

 accounted for by those subsequent westward irrup- 

 tions of the Mongolian stock, of which history fur- 

 nishes abundant testimony. The furthermost 

 limit of the Xanthochroi north-westward is Ice- 

 land and the British Isles; south-westward, they 

 are traceable at intervals through Syria and the 

 Berber country, ending in the Canary Islands. 

 The cranial characters of the Xanthochroi are not, 

 at present, strictly definable. The Scandinavians 

 are certainly long-headed; but many Germans, the 

 Swiss so far as they are Germanized, the Slavonians, 

 the Fins, and the Turks, are short-headed. What 

 were the cranial characters of the ancient " U- 

 suns " and " Ting-lings " of the valley of the Yeni- 

 sei is unknown. 



West and south of the area occupied by the 

 chief mass of the Xanthochroi, and north of the 



