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a large area of country in the vicinity of Leicester, Nottingham and Derby, the at- 
tention of the author was continually arrested by circumstances in the physical cha- 
racter of the population which were very unexpected. If in this district (the district 
of Danelagh) Danish settlers had replaced or been mixed with a purely Saxon peo- 
ple, the now existing inhabitants should exhibit mainly though not exclusively the 
blue eye, light hair and ruddy complexion, and commanding stature of the Germanic 
or Seandinavian races,—as in fact really happens among the mountains of Yorkshire, 
Cumbria and Northumberland, where these races predominate. But instead of such 
prevalent signs of Saxon or Danish origin, the author perceived with surprise very 
frequent examples of black eyes and hair, uniform or rather dark complexion, and 
contours of countenance which might with more appearance of truth be referred to 
that branch of the Celtic stem which is represented by the ancient population of South 
Wales, Cornwall and Armorica. Nor was this circumstance confined to particular classes 
which might be supposed to have immigrated, but was found to prevail even more posi- 
tively in the rural populations and most retired situations. It was equally noticed in 
children of various ages (except infants) and adults; and by repeated estimates the 
author was confirmed in his impression that in fully half of the rural population in a 
large area round Charnwood Forest the physical character of the Germanic or Scandi- 
navian people is wanting or complicated with another and very different type, and 
that only in a smaller part of the population is that character exclusively present. 
May we suppose, in explanation of these observations, that a larger proportion of 
the oppressed Britons was permitted to remain in their ancient midland sites than 
historians generally admit? Were the Coritanian Britons in this respect peculiarly 
favoured? Was it a circumstance more observable in the Mercian kingdom than else- “ 
where? The author, adopting for the present the affirmative on these points, rather 
than the supposition of these black-eyed races being derived from a blue-eyed ancestry, 
invited the attention of ethnologists to the curious problem of the actual distribution 
of aboriginal and immigrated races which the British islands present, a problem very 
important in history, but of which the solution, whether by philological or physical 
demonstrations, is becoming every day less and less practicable, through the fusion of 
dialects and the complication of races. 
On the Tumali Language. By Dr. L. TuTscHEek. 
The materials for the Tumali language were collected by Dr. Lorenz Tutschek from 
Dgalo Dgondan Are, one of the four young Africans with whose education he and 
his late brother had been entrusted by the Duke Maximilian of Bavaria. The lo- 
eality is one degree south of Obeyhda, in Kordofan. The Tumali area is divided by 
the mountain-stream ‘lente into two kingdoms of unequal size—the Tumali-Tokoken 
and the Tumali-Debili. The first is the smaller, but, at the same time, the seat of 
government; the Z/loé of Tumali-Debili being subordinate to the Ofter (or Wofter) 
of Tumali-Tokoken, who is again subordinate to the king of Takeli, himself a tribu- 
tary to the viceroy of Egypt. 
The Tumali language is a dialect of the Deier language of Riippell, or vice versd. 
It also agrees, to the extent of three-fourths of the words common to the two voca- 
bularies, with the Takeli* of Riippell. 
The details of this language, as communicated in extenso by Dr. Tutschek, may be 
found in the Transactions of the Philological Society for June 23, 1848. Partially, 
also, they appear in the Report of the present state of African Ethnographical Phi- 
lology, in the last volume of the Transactions of the British Association. 
On the Fazoglo Language. By Dr. L. Turscuex. 
Collected from a boy born at Hobila, in the south of the Fazoglo country, purchased 
out of slavery at Alexandria by the Duke Maximilian, and entrusted in the year 
1844 to Dr. Tutshek for education. F 
By referring to a note in the Report of the Transactions of the Sections for last 
year, it will be seen that the Fazoglo of Tutschek is nearly allied to, if not identical 
* See Report of last year, Transactions of the Sections, p. 124. 
