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sible to dive under these waves of migration, 

 to remove, as it were, the trace of their pas- 

 sage, and to read the true history of the past 

 inhabitants of the different parts of the world, 

 when it will be found, if all analogies are not 

 deceptive, that every country equaling in ex- 

 tent those within the limits of which distinct 

 nationahties are known to have played their 

 part in history, has had its distinct aborigines, 

 the character of which it is now the duty of 

 naturalists to restore, if it be not too late, in 

 the same manner as paleontologists restore 

 fossil remains. I have already made some 

 attempts, by studying ancient geography, and 

 I hope the task may yet be accomplished. 

 Look, for instance, at Spain. The Iberians 

 are known as the first inhabitants, never ex- 

 tending much beyond the Pyrenees to the 

 Garonne, and along the gulfs of Lyons and 

 Genoa. As early as during the period of 

 Phoenician prosperity they raised wool from 

 their native sheep, derived from the Mouflon, 

 still found wild in Spain, Corsica, and Sar- 

 dinia ; they had a peculiar breed of horses, to 

 this day differing from all other horses in the 

 world. Is this not better evidence of their 

 independent origin, than is the fancied line- 

 age with the Indo-Germanic family of their 



