150 CRITIQUES AND ADDEESSES. [vn. 



The Chinese historians of the Han dynasty, writing in 

 the third century before our era, describe, with much 

 minuteness, certain numerous and powerful barbarians 

 with " yellow hair, green eyes, and prominent noses/* 

 who, the black-haired, skew-eyed, and flat-nosed an- 

 nalists remark in passing, are "just like the apes from 

 whom they are descended/' These people held, in force, 

 the upper waters of the Yenisei, and thence under various 

 names stretched southward to Thibet and Kashgar. Fair- 

 haired and blue-eyed northern enemies were no less 

 known to the ancient Hindoos, to the Persians, and to the 

 Egyptians, on the south of the great central Asiatic area ; 

 while the testimony of all European antiquity is to the 

 effect that, before and since the period in question, there 

 lay beyond the Danube, the Ehine, and the Seine, a vast 

 and dangerous yellow or red haired, fair- skinned, blue- 

 eyed population. Whether the disturbers of the marches 

 of the Eoman Empire were called Gauls or Germans, 

 Goths, Alans, or Scythians, one thing seems certain, that 

 until the invasion of the Huns, they were tall, fair, blue- 

 eyed men. 



If any one should think fit to assume that in the year 

 100 B.C., there was one continuous Xanthochroic popula- 

 tion from the Ehine to the Yenisei, and from the Ural 

 mountains to the Hindoo Koosh, I know not that any 

 evidence exists by which that position could be upset, 

 while the existing state of things is rather in its favour 

 than otherwise. For the Scandinavians, wholly, the 

 Germans to a great extent, the Slavonian and the 

 Finnish tribes, some of the inhabitants of Greece, many 

 Turks, some Kirghis, and some Mantchous, the Ossetes in 

 the Caucasus, the Siahposh, the Eohillas, are at the 

 present day fair, yellow or red haired, and blue-eyed ; 

 and the interpolation of tribes of Mongolian hair and 

 complexion, as far west as the Caspian Steppes and the 



