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to point out the evident possession of Thibet, of parts 

 of China and Mongolia, by the bearded race ; and that 

 they are noticed in early Chinese authorities by the 

 names of Kinto-Moey and Yuchi ; and still in part are 

 occupiers of the more inaccessible mountains of the 

 interior, bearing the contemptuous appellations of 

 Miau-tze and Mou-laou. Even western geographers 

 were not entirely ignorant of this fact, since by them 

 Gangarides are placed on the Brahmaputra ; and the 

 antique presence of Sanscrit, that most extensive of 

 all languages, is attested, by innumerable denomina- 

 tions, far beyond these regions, since we find them 

 pervading the greater part of Thibet and Indo-China. 

 As the predominant external character, and the cor- 

 responding intellectual tendencies of the Caucasian 

 Man, are found to assimilate with the other two typi- 

 cal stocks in proportion as they approach geographi- 

 cally to, and mix with them, the intermediate Ethio- 

 pic on the south, and Finnic on the north, have, next 

 to their points of contact, shades of dark-skinned or 

 fair races, partaking of these characters in degree only 

 according to that vicinity; and thence, we must look 

 for the normal point of the type where the influence 

 of the other two is, or at least primaevally was, least 

 accessible. This geographical point belongs emphati- 

 cally to Hindu-Koosh, extending eastward up to the 

 Pamere, and westward through Armenia, and the occi- 

 dental Caucasus to Greece and Italy, notwithstanding 

 the progress which, since the historical ages, the Mon- 

 golic diffusion has made in Northern Asia, following a 



