cxir NOTES. 



C 05 ) p. 351. Rudolph Wagner, iiber Blendlinge und Bastarderzeugung, in 

 his notes to Naturgesch. des Menschengeschlects, Th. i. S. 174 188, trans- 

 lated from Prichard's Natural History of Man. 



C 436 ) p. 352. Prichard (in Wagner's German translation), Th. i. S. 431. 

 T. ii. S. 363369. 



t 437 ) p. 352. Onesicritus, in Strabo, xv. p. 690 and 695, Causab. Welcker 

 .(Griechische Tragodien, Abth. iii. S. 1078) supposes that the verses of Theo- 

 dectes, which Strabo has quoted, are taken from a lost tragedy, which, 

 perhaps, bore the title of " Memnon." 



C 438 ) p. 353. J. Miiller, Physiol. des Menschen, Bd. ii. S. 768, 772774, 



O p. 353. Prichard (in the German translation), Th. i. S. 295; T. iii. 

 S. 11. 



O p. 353. The late arrival of the Turkish and Mongolian tribes, both 

 on the Oxus and on the Kirghis steppes, is opposed to the hypothesis of 

 Niebuhr, which makes the Scythians of Herodotus and Hippocrates Mongo- 

 lians. It geems to me far more probable that the Scythians, Scoloti, should 

 be referred to the Indo-germanic Massagetse (the Alani.) The Mongolians, 

 true Tatars (a name long afterwards improperly given to purely Turkish 

 tribes in Russia and Siberia,) then dwelt far in the eastern part of Asia. 

 Compare my Asie centr. T. i. p. 239 and 400 ; Examen critique de 1'hist. de 

 la Geog. T. ii. p. 320. A distinguished linguist, Professor Buschmann, re- 

 marks that Firdusi, in a half mythic history with which he begins the Shah- 

 nameh, mentions a "fortress of the Alani," on the sea shore, in which Selm 

 the eldest son of king Feridun, who certainly lived two centuries before 

 Cyrus, sought shelter. The Kirghis of the steppe, called Scythian, are 

 originally a Finnish race : their three hordes probably constitute the most 

 numerous nomade nation of the present time, and in the sixth century they 

 lived on the same steppe where I have myself seen them. The Byzantine 

 Menander (p. 380382, ed. Nieb.) relates expressly that the Chakan of the 

 Turks (Thu-khiu,) in 569, made Zemarchus, the ambassador of the emperor 

 Justinus II., a present of a Kirghis female slave; he calls her x ( PX^ s > an d 

 also in Abulgasi (Ilistoria Mongolorum et Tatarorum), the Kirghis are 

 called JCirkiz. Similarity of manners and customs, where the nature of the 

 country determines their principal characters, is a very uncertain evidence of 

 identity of race. The life of the steppes produces among the Turks (Ti Tukiu,) 

 the Baschkirs (Fins,) the Kirghis, the Torgodi, and the Dsungari (Mongolians,) 

 the customs common to a monade life, and the same use of felt tents, carried 

 on waggons, and pitched among the herds of cattle. 



