149 REPORT—1850. 
migrations and displacements, and that on no evidence; but simply for the sake of 
the supposed fact they would account for. } 
The same applies to Bohemia, which was never more German than it is at present.’ 
Reasons for believing that the ante-Germanic population of Jutland and Gothland 
were the Guddons of Prussia, and Lithuanians rather than either Celts or Finns, were 
also given. 
Remarks on the Soukaneeah Dialect of the Berber. 
By Yrofessor F. W. NEwMAN. 
The vocabulary sent home by Mr. Richardson contains near 150 single words, 
besides a few short sentences. Setting aside those which are mere Arabic (which 
are not many), the rest, with few exceptions, are found in recognized dialects of the 
Berber, and in fact are generally discernible in the Kabail or Algiers Berber. The 
words totally new to me (F. W. N.) seem to me under twenty in number; so there 
can be no question that the Soukaneeah is a genuine Berber dialect. 
Its personal pronouns are nearest to those of the Ghadamsi, which is perhaps the 
same as the dialect which Hodgson calls Tuaryk; but in the plural there seems to 
be a clipping of the pronunciation, and the word for They (Emdin, if I rightly read 
the MS.) is quite peculiar. In the Ghadamsi of Hemso di Graberg there is equally 
great divergency from the standard Berber as to this pronoun. 
The interrogative and demonstrative pronouns in general appear to approach closest 
to those of the Ghadamsi; so also do certain common verbs and words in which 
these dialects deviate more or less from the Kabail and from the Shilha. 
In the numerals there is this peculiarity (unless the reporter has been misled), 
that for Five, they say Fusa (a hand), and for Ten, [fasen (hands) ; which further 
leads to saying for Six, Fusa li dad (hand to finger) ; Eight, [fasen ghair sen (hands 
without two) ; Nine, [fasen ghair egin (hands without one). στη. one, is Ghadamsi. 
Inquiry into the Evidence of the Existence of Primitive Races in Scotland , 
prior to the Celte. By DanieEL WILSON. 
Dr. Prichard remarks in his Observations on the Indo-European Nations, intro- 
duced into his ‘ Natural History of Man,’ “ It would be an interesting question 
if there were any data likely to facilitate its discussion, whether the Arian nations 
found on their arrival in Europe the different countries already occupied by previous 
inhabitants, or vacant, and affording them a peaceful and undisputed admission ”” 
(Ρ- 184). Ethnologists are now familiar with the labours of several zealous men of 
science on the continent, and especially of Professors Nllson and Retzius, to supply 
a distinct answer to this important inquiry. It is to be regretted that this branch 
of physical archzology has heretofore been so little esteemed in this country in com- 
parison of the contributions afforded by philological researches to ethnology. Many 
points still remain in doubt which it alone can answer; and while the philologicab 
evidence affords valuable and precise information in regard to the diffusion of the 
Arian nations over Europe, it 15 ἃ matter of very great importance, even in its bear= 
ing on this branch of the inquiry, to know whether the nomade Celtz peopled for the 
first time the unoccupied wastes and forests of Europe, or superseded elder aborigi- 
nal races. Still greater is its value in relation to the other questions which demand 
a reply from the ethnologist, as to the origin of the human family from one or more 
stocks, and the migration from a common centre, or cradle-land, which, in so far 
as relates to the historic races, appears distinctly to coincide with the Mosaic history 
of the human race. - 
Philological research has not, as yet, thrown light on the Allophylian nations of 
Europe, nor is there much probability that it can do so; and from the general mis- 
apprehension by men of science in England, of the value of archzeological investiga= 
tions, they have been rendered nearly valueless as a means for the ascertainment of 
truths relating to primitive ethnology. On the continent, and especially in Sweden 
and Denmark, much has already been done in this department of inquiry, and not 
without valuable results. The conclusions arrived at by Professor Nillson of Lund, 
in regard to the primitive inhabitants of Scandinavia, have already been laid before 
