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accordingly, nations arising from this branch of the 

 Mongolic stock, gradually more and more mixed with 

 Caucasians, can be traced southward, down to the 

 great central range of mountains, where they were met 

 by the opposite commixture of swarthy races, while 

 the purest typical form of the bearded type clung to 

 the line of mountain prolongation, or occupied parallels 

 along it to the western extremity of Europe. The 

 commixture of two typical races, as before observed, 

 is often productive of larger growth among individuals, 

 especially if the northern Caucasian predominate. On 

 the edge where they encountered the Hyperborean, 

 they mixed with it, perhaps alternately as subjects or 

 captives, and as masters, until both were pressed by 

 others, again subdued, or driven forward to other re- 

 gions. Several of these, and other nations hereafter 

 noticed, can be traced back to the Colchian sea-ports, 

 to the shores of the Meotic estuary and Tauric Cher- 

 sonesus, where materials for navigating the great rivers 

 of Scythia first improved their experience to dare the 

 more open sea of the Euxine, ascend the Danube, or 

 pass through the Bosphorus into the ^Egean, and ulti- 

 mately to become intrepid seamen. Though they pos- 

 sessed some industrial knowledge ; destitution, famine, 

 or other causes, made them fierce savages, often posi- 

 tive cannibals. Such, it is likely, were the Cyclopeans, 

 Lestrigons, Sicanes, and Siculian swarms, which long 

 terrified the more southern Asiatic emigrants on the 

 shores of the Mediterranean. But before the historical 

 era, they were already followed by others (the mining 



