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the list of extremes given in my Asie Centrale, T. iii. p. 

 295. Alexander Gerard saw the snow limit ascend, on the 

 Thibetian declivity of the Himalaya, to 19200 Parisian feet 

 (20465 English); and on the southern Indian declivity, 

 Jacquemont once saw it, north of Cursali on the Jumnotri, 

 even as low as 10800 Parisian (11,510 English) feet. 



( n ) p. 6. "A brown Pastoral Race, the Hiongnu" 

 The Hiongnu (Hiong-nou), who Deguignes, and with 

 him many historians, long considered to be the Huns, 

 inhabited that vast region of Tartary which is bounded on 

 the east by Uo-leang-ho (the present Mantschu dominion), 

 on the south by the Chinese wall, on the west by the 

 U-siiin territory, and on the north by the country of the 

 Eleuthes. But the Hiongnu belong to the Turkish, and 

 the Huns to the Finnish or Uralian race. The northern 

 Huns, a rude pastoral people, unacquainted with agriculture, 

 were dark brown (sunburnt) ; the southern Huns or Haja- 

 telah, (called by the Byzantines Euthalites or Nepthalites, 

 and dwelling along the eastern shore of the Caspian), had a 

 fairer complexion. The latter cultivated the ground, and 

 possessed towns. They are often called the white, or fair 

 Huns, and d'Herbelot even declares them to be Indo- 

 Scythians. On Punu, the Leader or Tanju of the Huns, 

 and on the great drought and famine which, about 46 A.D., 

 caused a part of the nation to migrate northwards, (see 

 Deguignes, Histoire gen. des Huns, des Turcs, &c., 1756, 

 T. i. pt, i. p. 217 ; pt. ii. p. Ill, 125, 223, 447.) All the 

 accounts of the Huns taken from the above-mentioned 



