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barbarity which has been preserved. Of the class we 

 mean, there are still a few remaining, which, although 

 they be distorted by ill directed zeal, by imposture, 

 and by ignorance, furnish curious hints in their way. 

 Such, for example, is the song of the Lombards, also 

 known as that of the Ost and West Friesen or Prisons, 

 found by Mr. Bonstetten, at Copenhagen. In the 

 Land-urbar, or Costumier of the Bernese Swiss, there 

 is likewise a legendary record of the fair haired tribes 

 of Ober-Hasli, Schwytz, Gessenay, and Bellegarde, 

 printed as early as 1507, by Etterlin, in the chronicles 

 of Lucerne. The Song of Hasli, of about 180 stanzas, 

 relates the migration of these clans, their battles, and 

 tneir arrival near the Brochenberg, where they built 

 Schwytz ; and it appears, they fought in the cause of 

 Arcadius and Honorius, about the year 387. 



Here we terminate this inquiry into the origin and 

 filiation of the races of Man a subject, zoologically 

 viewed, we thought more novel, than to repeat what 

 has already been said by other writers, and especially 

 by Dr. Prichard, with his accustomed industry and 

 learning. 



As for us, compelled, for want of space, to abstain 

 from entering into many important particulars, which 

 would be more necessary for the elucidation of the ge- 

 neral theory now advanced, if readers were not now 

 very commonly well informed on most of the points 

 brought here under consideration. Want of space 



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