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deduces from all the characters taken together that these 

 three peoples are closely related, and thus he feels justi- 

 fied in propounding the following hypothesis, which has 

 the merit of being in accord with the views previously pro- 

 pounded by Castren, by Charusiu and by Goroschtschenko: 

 " A fairly numerous people, the Soyots (or another people 

 of the same race) quitted, in former times, the Altai 

 Mountains, proceeded towards the north and fixed their 

 habitation in the basin of the river Yenissei where we find 

 the remains of this people under the name of the Ostyaks 

 of Yenissei. Passing farther towards the north, a party 

 of this same people occupied the polar Tundra up to the 

 Gulf of Khatan in the east; another party moved towards 

 the west, crossed the Ural Mountains and settled in the 

 northern confines of Europe up to Scandinavia inclusive. 

 In this region it is known under the name of the Samoyed, 

 4ind on the peninsula of Kolsky and in Scandinavia it is 

 .known by the name of Laps.'" 



Besides making this hypothesis Rudenko maintains that 

 on the other hand the Ostyaks of the Ob and the Vogul 

 belong both to another race. Deiliker also believes them 

 to be another race naming them " "Ugri," short and doli- 

 chocephalic, or to be more exact mesaticephalic. These 

 two characteristics, in our opinion, connect them with 

 other Pakeoarctics, as may be seen from our Tables I, 

 II and III ; while we, agreeing with the hypothesis 

 referred to above, separate the Samoyeds, the Ostyaks 

 of the Yenissei and the Soyots in a brachymorphous 

 subvariety. 



The populations which are now to be found in the 

 high valleys of the Altai belong partly to the variety 

 altalcus and partly to the variety cent rails, as can be seen 



1 llul.. p. K* ( J. Tt.is Lyputliesis dues not differ from that snu'gested bv ut> in 

 L'UUIHO uttnale, Roma, Albrighi u Segati, 1013, p. 76. 



