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stem of arctic Asia, it follows, that in this place 

 Toorkee tribes, who have the same conformation of i 

 skull as the bearded stock, should be classed with 

 Finn or Tschudic group, although they are known 

 originally to have been Hyperboreans of the most de- 

 formed personal exterior, according to European no- 

 tions. They have already been mentioned in the 

 notice of the Mongolian type, to which they were 

 more strictly allied, so long as they remained unmixed. 



THE TURKS. 



THUS, the Atrak Turks, more especially the Osmanlis, 

 differ from the other Toorkees, by their lofty stature, 

 European features, abundant beards, and fair com- 

 plexions, derived from their original extraction, being 

 Cri'ticasUm, of Yuchi race, or from an early intermix- 

 ture with it, and with the numerous captives they 

 were for ages incorporating from Kashmere, Affghan- 

 istan, Persia, Syria, Natolia, Armenia, Greece, and 

 eastern Europe. Both these conjectures may be true, 

 because the Caucasian stock, wherever we find it, con- 

 trives to rise into power, from whatever source it may 

 be drawn, and therefore may in part have been pure 

 before the nation left eastern Asia, while the subor- 

 dinate hordes remained more or less Hyperborean in 

 character ; as, in truth, the normal Toorkees about the 

 lower Oxus still are. All have, however, a peculiar 

 form of the posterior portion of the skull, which is less 



