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nonia. They long ravaged central Europe, until they 

 became Christians in the eleventh, from which period 

 they have been a repeated spoil of the Osmanlis. The 

 Magyars offer another instance where the Finnic stem 

 produces gigantic men ; for the Hungarian grenadiers 

 and the national heydukes are more generally of great 

 stature than any other nation of Europe. During the 

 time they resided near the Black Sea, they appear to 

 have been in close friendship with the Zychi or Cir- 

 cassian tribes ; for they have not only a great exter- 

 nal correspondence of appearance, but the Circassian 

 language, like the old Armenian and the Hungarian, 

 contains a great number of Finnic words, arid tlio 

 Lesghi-Avares of the same mountains liavs many 

 Hunnic proper names still retained among them. 



It is probably to these tribes of pure Caucasians, or 

 of hybrid Finns, that the Gog and Magog giants of 

 antiquity, or rather the Haigu-re and Magiuge of 

 Curds and Persians, so long the terror of south 

 western Asia, are to be traced ; for the pass of Der- 

 bend, on the Caspian, was already, in remote ages, 

 vainly closed by artificial defences, to keep them from 

 penetrating to the south.* 



The interunion of Hyperborean with northern Cau- 

 casian races, constituting also in our view the Ouralian 



* Portse Caspise and PylaB Albania of the classical 

 writers ; Derbend, gate of security, in Persia ; Demir Capi, 

 iron gate of the Turks. The Chinese wall, the Sassanian 

 lines of Chorassan, and the Roman wall of Britain, were all 

 constructed to arrest the progress of the same Hyperboreans 

 of mixed origin. 



