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the seventh from Jabbalpur, where Colonel Slee- 

 man's principal Assistant drew it up, the affinities 

 of the tongues are very striking : so much so that 

 the first five may be safely denominated dialects 

 of the great Kol language : and through the 

 Uraon speech we trace without difficulty the 

 further connection of the language of the Kols 

 with that of the hill men of the Rajmahal and 

 Bhaugalpur ranges. Nor are there wanting obvious 

 links between the several tongues above enumer- 

 ated all which may be classed under the head 

 Kol and that of the Gonds in the Vindhya 

 whose speech again has been lately shown by 

 Mr. Elliot to have much resemblance both in 

 vocables and structure to the cultivated tongues 

 of the Deccan. Mr. Hodgson's hypothesis, in his 

 essay on the Koch, Bodo, and Dhimal, is that all 

 the Tamulians have a common fountain of origin, 

 like all the Arians ; and that the innumerable 

 diversities of spoken language characterising the 

 former race are but the more or less superficial 

 effects of their long and utter dispersion and 

 segregation, owing to the savage tyranny of the 

 latter race in days when the rights of conquest 

 were synonymous with a license to destroy, spoil, 

 and enslave. The Arians, according to Chevalier 

 Bunsen, who does not accept the ordinary calcu- 

 lation as to the age of the world, emigrated out 



