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Yenisei, and from the Ural mountains to the 

 Hindoo Koosh, I know not that any evidence 

 ' exists by which that position could be upset, while 

 the existing state of things is rather in its 

 favour than otherwise. For the Scandinavians, 

 the Germans, the Slavonian and the Finnish 

 tribes, to a great extent ; some of the inhabitants 

 of Greece, many Turks, some Kirghis, and 

 some Mantchous, the Ossetes in the Caucasus, the 

 Siahposh, the Rohillas, are at the present day fair, 

 yellow or red haired, and blue-eyed ; and the 

 interpolation of tribes of Mongolian hair and com- 

 plexion, as far west as the Caspian Steppes and 

 the Crimea, might justly be accounted for by those 

 subsequent westward irruptions of the Mongolian 

 stock, of which history furnishes abundant testi- 

 mony. The furthermost limit of the Xanthochroi 

 north-westward is Iceland and the British Isles ; 

 south-westward, they are traceable at intervals 

 through Syria and the Berber country, ending in 

 the Canary Islands. The cranial characters of the 

 Xanthochroi are not, at present, strictly definable. 

 The Scandinavians are certainly long-headed; 

 but many Germans, the Swiss so far as they are 

 Germanized, the Slavonians, the Fins, and the 

 Turks, are short-headed. What were the cranial 

 characters of the ancient " U-suns " and " Ting- 

 lings " of the valley of the Yenisei is unknown. 



West and south of the area occupied by the 

 chief mass of the Xanthochroi, and north of the 



