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again for ages resident in northern Egypt and Palestine; 

 and in the second, by the long unrestrained alliances with 

 the real Egyptian people, as well as with Canaanites 

 during the administration of the Judges ; and at a later 

 period with Babylonians, Greeks, and Romans. 



A most ancient assimilation of the Hebrew people, 

 if not an actual origin among tribes located near the 

 Gomerian source, is indicated by the exiled tribes 

 having shown a greater tendency to mix and assimi- 

 late with the Finnic Scythians on the north, than with 

 the Arabs on the south ; notwithstanding that their 

 language was more positively allied to it than to the 

 Celtic or any Finnic dialect. In the north alone, the 

 ancient Israelite race found honour and power, as was 

 proved by the military energy they displayed against 

 the Persians, noticed in an earlier part of this volume, 

 and again in their connection with, and titular dignity 

 among the Khazars : it is even now shown in the respect 

 bestowed upon the Karaite Jews of the Crimea. These 

 views are strengthened by the beautiful spherical 

 cranium of the Jews, as fine as the Arabian or Circas- 

 sian; by their profiles still predominantly aquiline; 

 by the frequent recurrence of grey eyes, xanthous 

 hair; and by a sturdy structure, less Arabian than 

 Celtic, yet on the whole retaining an Asiatic and 

 peculiar aspect seldom adorned with beauty. 



All the foregoing conditions taken together, tend to 

 show, that the Hebrew race and language were not 

 paternally of a Semitic origin, but that both resulted 

 from the region where the first family came to settle 



