88 UEPORT — 1853. 



&c. Admit nothing but Finns and Genuans, and all these points are difficulties. The 

 hypothesis of Lithuanic as well as a German conquest accounts for them. Jutland 

 was probablv a land of Lithuanic settlements, intermixed with Slavonic ones from 

 Pomcrania, &c. 



Htlmologicul Bemurhs itpon some of the more rcmarhablc Varieties of the 



Human Species, reprcsnitcd hy individuals now in London. By R. G. 



Latham, M.D. 



llie Zulus. — Tlicse belong to the CaftVe family. Between this Caffre family and 

 the true Negro a broad line of demarcation is often drawn. The individuals io 

 question make this line doubtful. They are certainly intermediate both in shape 

 and colour. This is the most important point in their ethnology. 



The Ear ihmen.— These are Bushmen who occupy a tract of which the geological 

 character supplies natural caves which serve for habitations. In this sense only are 

 they Earihmeii, as opposed to the ordinary Saab (Bushman). They are Bushman- 

 Troglodytes, or Troglodyte- Bushmen. 



Australians.— Height', 5 feet 10 inches, and 5 feet 9 inches. Lower extremities 

 inordinately thin ; so much so as to show that the illustrations of Dr. Prichard are 

 no exaggeration. Hair, somewhat more crisp and curly than is expected from the 

 current descriptions. Language, Cowrarega. 



The Jstecs.— No offspring of parents like themselves, nor yet likely to be the 

 parents of offspring like themselves ; consequently no specimens of any new race 

 (so-called). Probably from the part of South America to which they are referred. 

 Their likeness to certain outlines on Mexican monuments not accidental. This ac- 

 counted for by supposing that the physical or social conditions of the locality 

 to which they are attributed, favour such degenerations as they exhibit; the 

 tendency to them being endemic. In the point nearest to their attributed locality 

 of which any notice is in print. Gage found the people ill-shapen and goitrous. At 

 the same time their appearance is not that of the Cretins of Europe : of these they 

 are the American analogues. An intermixture of Spanish (or other) blood, as 

 suggested by good authorities, would most easily account for certain points (e. g, 

 the hair) in which they differ from the American Indian, and approach the 

 Spaniard, Jew, &c. It is doubtful, however, whether the assumption is necessary ; 

 at the same time it is compatible with the present view. The existence of Indians 

 in a state of independence for one of the frontiers of Vera Paz is an actual fact. 

 The Lacondona Indians are in this predicament. They are also inaccessible. The 

 existence of Casas Grandes in the locality to which the Astecs are attributed is 

 likely. Upon the whole it is believed that'they come from a locality where certain 

 tendencies to degeneration are and have been endemic, and where there may be soine 

 architectural remains, and some vestiges of independence, — facts which, even if 

 adopted, by no means imply the truth of the so-called nariative of Velasquez, or 

 the details of the history of the two children. As to the name Aztec, they are only 

 Astecs, so far as they represent an outlying portion of the Astec empire as opposed 

 to Spanish America. 



On the Traces of a Bilingual Town (Danish and Angle) in England. 

 By \\. G. Latham, M.D. 



The termination of local names in -hy CNevf-btj as contrasted with New-/on) is 

 the chief characteristic of Danish, as opposed to Angle, or Anglo-Saxon, occupancy. 

 There are other forms equally characteristic ; one of those is -caster, as opposed to 

 -cesier and -Chester. Lan-caster is Danish; Lan-c/ie«/fr (Ciren-ces^er) Anglo-Saxon. 

 Danish Northampton is divided from non-Danish Huntingdonshire by the river 

 Nene. On this stood the Roman Durobrivje, partly (probably) on the one side of 

 the water, partly on the other. This gave us two Roman castra. The modern forms 

 of these two castra are, on the Northamptonshire (Danish) side, Caistor (not Chester); 

 on the Huntingdonshire (Angle) side, C/iester-ton (not Caster-ton). 



Observations on the Pravince of Tarapaca, South Pent. 

 By Don M. B. La Fuente. 



