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of the country of the sources of the Oxus and 

 Jazartes, B.C. 11,000 to 10,000, and about B.C. 

 7,250 to 5,000, they separated into Kelts, Armenians, 

 Irenians, Greeks, Slaves, and Germans. Accord- 

 ing to Bunsen the separation of the Arians was 

 prior to their leaving Sogd. The emigration from 

 Sogd to Bactria, after the separation, took place 

 B.C. 5,000, consequently before the time of Menes. 

 The immigration into the Hindus country about 

 B.C. 4,000 and Zoroaster's reform in Bactria 

 about the time of Menes or half a century later. 

 The Arian population of India descended into it 

 about three thousand years ago from the North- 

 West, as conquerors, and that they completely 

 subdued all the open and cultivated parts of 

 Hindostan, Bengal, and the most adjacent tracts 

 of the Deccan, as Telingana, Gujerat, and Mahar- 

 ashtra, or the Maharatta country, but failed to 

 extend their effective sway and colonisation 

 further south, are historical deductions, confirmed 

 daily more and more by the results of ethno- 

 logical research. We thus find an easy and 

 natural explanation of the facts that in the 

 Deccan, where the original tenants of the soil 

 have been able to hold together in possession of 

 it, the aboriginal languages exhibit a deal of in- 

 tegrity and refinement, whilst in the North, where 

 the pristine population has been hunted into 



