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THE FINNIC, OURALIAN, OR TSCHUDIC 

 SUBTYPICAL STEM, 



APPEARS to have arisen from an interunion of the two 

 great typical forms of the north ; for its characteristics 

 become prominent in proportion as the respective 

 alliance with one or the other is predominant : thus, 

 while the Skrict-Finn or Laplander, nearly of pure 

 Hyperborean blood, verges in the same degree to the 

 Mongole stock, the F inlander is in structure entirely 

 a Caucasian, though both speak dialects of the same 

 language here, as elsewhere, showing the ready pre- 

 dominance of the Caucasian blood. All the nations 

 of this stem have considerable flexibility of voice, and 

 consequently a great facility in acquiring the languages 

 of their neighbours and of strangers ; and hence the 

 Sclavonic and Teutonic dialects have swept away the 

 Finnic in all places where the resident tribes were not 

 isolated by the nature of their country. In Asia the 

 Tschutski are of similar origin as the more western 

 Finns,* and seem to represent the parent stock whence 



* Tschutski and Finn are convertible terms in northern 

 Russia. Tschudi is the Russian name of Finland, and the 

 true appellation of the ancient Scythians. Joten were the 

 giant families, or Gothic Finns of the Germans. There is 

 still a tribe of Tusci remaining among the inhabitants of 

 Circassia; and if Rauwolf be correct, the Druses of Liba- 

 nus were called Trusci. This indicates a portion of the 



