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Here, like in other cases, it should be borne in mind, 

 that the ruling tribes and royal clans, the greatest 

 sharers in the division of spoil, possessed the principal 

 proportion of Caucasian captive females, and thence 

 acquired an external superiority of aspect, as well as 

 much greater cerebral expansion. This fact is forci- 

 bly shown in the Osmanli and Toorkee dynasties of 

 Europe and Persia. Mythology and romance notice 

 dwarfs and Pypilikas, or gold finding ants (possibly a 

 mode of describing the gold miners of the Altaic 

 range), Tschutski, Jakoutski, or others, not perhaps 

 pure Hyperboreans, such as the iron working Niron 

 tribes of Mongolia, appropriately typified by griffins 

 and dragons, since these very monsters have been their 

 national ensigns from the remotest ages ; and at seve- 

 ral times conquerors have issued from among them, 

 desolating the earth, and forming the greatest as well 

 as the most transient empires in human history.* 



Whether the Phryni and Seres of antiquity, men- 

 tioned by Pliny, Strabo, and Ptolemy, were really of 

 the beardless stock in possession of Kashgar and Yar- 

 kund, and associated with the Tokhari as early as the 

 Macedonian conquest, may well be contested, since the 

 conjecture of Dr. Vincent, that for Scythise should be 

 read Sindh, is proved to be incorrect. The southern 

 glens of that region being the spontaneous land of the 

 mulberry tree, had then, no doubt, their own different 



* Such as Ogus Khan, about 657 B. d, to Genghiz Khan, 

 about 1154 A. D. 



