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ago the Chinese, a hardy, prolific race, came in immense numbers 

 from the sterile plains in the north-east into the valleys and rich 

 alluvial plains of China. They now occupy the best parts of the 

 country, and are to the original inhabitants in the proportion of 

 ten to one. The Aborigines are much more numerous in the 

 mountains, whither they were driven by the invaders. To this 

 class belongs the occupation of Hindoostan 'by an Aryan race. 

 Five hundred years before the Christian era, impelled by ''earth 

 hunger," they entered the Punjaub, crossed the Indus, and 

 settled in the fertile plains of India. Perhaps they were not 

 much superior to the previous inhabitants in military prowess and 

 manners, yet they spread themselves over the country, either by 

 moral or religious superiority. In India, the ^farther north the 

 more Aryan is the type. In the south the people are darker and 

 of less marked Aryan character, though possibly much of this is 

 due more to difference of climate and other causes than to any 

 great original difference of race. The migrations to further India 

 were probably owing to the religious idea, for there, we are told, 

 are to be found in the jungle temples worthy to be named in the 

 same breath with the cathedrals of Europe. But of these 

 migrations all traces have died out, either because the climate 

 was unsuitable, or because, as Euckle says, "The forces of nature 

 were too much for savage man." The Saxon invasion of England 

 must be named in this class, for though accomplished by force, 

 it was not essentially military, but an expedition to get land to 

 till, and the names the Saxons gave to their settlements prove 

 this. They wanted more room than would be found in the little 

 countries from which they came, — Sleswick Holstein, and 

 Priesland. Simply military migrations would scarcely have 

 influenced the language, type, and character as they have done. 

 To the fifth class belong the occupation of the ports on the 

 south of Ireland by the Oestmen or Danes. A party of them, 

 sailing up the E. Suir, founded a city, which they called Waterford, 

 and from thence traded to the West of England. Probably 

 the existence of Bristol as a port, is owing to them, for they 



