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able extent vanished, especially among the Lapps, Wotiaks, Esths, 

 Magyars, etc., perhaps through intermingling with other races. The 

 Ostiaks and Woguls are, however, according to Baer and Dr. Euro- 

 pfens,^ dolichocephalic, a fact noted before by Humboldt, and since, 

 by A. H. Keane. The migration of the Turanians now in Eui'ope, 

 can with reason, be ti-aced back to the region of the Altai in Asia. 

 A. H. Keane- remarks, Lake Baikal itself seems to have been 

 indicated as a sort of point of dispersion of the Lapp Race. H. H. 

 Howorth,^ gives the following names in the region of the Obi and 

 Yenesei, as proof of the migration of the Finns : — Ishma (river-name ; 

 Finnish, Isovia), Tsylina (river-name, Finnish Kylma, with which 

 might be compared Kolyma in N. E. Siberia), Pjosch a (river-name, 

 Finnish Pesa), Kuloi (river-name, means fish-river, cf. Kolyma). And 

 Ujfalvy de Mezokovezd^ says, " Dans les bassins de I'lrtyche, del'Obi, 

 et du Yenesei, les nouis d'origine finnoise abondent," and ho cites as 

 examples the following : — Kem (the name given by the Tartars to the 

 Yenesei, cf the Kemi in Finland, the Kemi in Olonetz, and the 

 Kama in Permia, with which I venture to compare, Kamanek, ' lake ' 

 in Churchill Paver Eskimo and Krarjmalik, Kragnalvik, the names 

 of the Ptivers Anderson and McFarlane in the Tchiglit, or Mackenzie 

 iliver dialect); sym {synio in Finland); ija [in Finland oji and yoki, 

 with which compare kuk (Gd.), kuuk (Ch. P.), koouk (Kotz. Sd.), 

 coke (Malemute), river]; Koloa (fish- river, frequently met with in 

 Finland, Permia, and Archangel, and in Kolyma, bordering on the 

 Eskimo region in N. E. Siberia, cf. khalloo Kotz. Sd., fish); that they 

 should have come over from America in the prehistoric past, seems 

 then a reasonable explanation. 



With the Eskimo tribes of North America, it is common to 

 find the designations of local divisions, communities, or tribes 

 so-called, ending in -m,eut, -meut, -mio, -meork, which termination 

 Petitof' says marks residence or habitation, e.g., Kuskwogmute, 

 a dweller on the KuskAvoquira River, ChuklukmeiU, an inliabitnnt 

 of Chukluk. It is interesting to find this suflix in Asia. 

 H. H. Howorth^ speaks of the root mard or murd, as in Mord-win, 



1. Zeltschrift fur Ethnolo^e, Berlin, 1876, p. 81-88. 



2. The Lapps, their Ori^n, etc., .Journ. Anthr. Inst, xv., p. 217. 



3. The Finns, .Journ. Anthr. Inst., vol. ii., p. 192 



4. Melanges Altai<jues, p. 51. 



5. Voc. Fran(;ais.-Esquini. 187t5, p. liv., and Bull. Soc. fl'Anthr. de Paris vii., p. 219. 



6. Bulgarians, Journ. Anthr. Inst, iii., p. 29. 



