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the Hindus. Mr. Hodgson apprehends that there 

 will be found among the aborigines of India a 

 like lingual sameness, and that very extended and 

 very accurate investigation will consequently alone 

 suffice to test the real nature and import of the 

 double sameness, physical and lingual. That all 

 the aborigines of India are Northmen of the 

 Scythic stem seems decidedly and justly inferrible 

 from their physical characteristics. But, inasmuch 

 as that prodigious stem is everywhere found 

 beyond the whole Northern and Eastern 

 boundary of India, not merely from Attok to the 

 Brahamaputra, where these rivers cut through 

 the Himalaya, but from that point of the latter 

 river all the way to the sea ; and inasmuch as 

 there are familiar ghats or passes over the 

 Himalaya throughout its course along the entire 

 confines of India from Kashmir to the Brahma- 

 kund, it follows of necessity that very careful and 

 ample investigation will alone enable us to decide 

 upon the questions, whether they owe their 

 confessed Scythic physiognomy to the Tungus, 

 the Mongol, or the Turk branch of the Tartars 

 or Scythians, and whether they immigrated 

 from beyond the Himalaya (" the hive of all 

 nations") at one period and at one point, or at 

 several periods and as many points. Between 

 Gilgit and Chittagong there are a hundred passes 



