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ing the Egyptian hoe, and recurs again on a coin of 

 Comana, where Perseus is so figured, and again on one 

 of ancient Tauris. It is the glib of the ancient Irish. 

 The Kaufirs sit on stools, and do not squat like other 

 Asiatics. They are vehement dancers, and a kind 

 people. 



Blending with the nearest black haired tribes, the Ma- 

 moges may be considered to have formed the ancient 

 Persians, and with the fair haired on the north, pro- 

 duced the handsome tribes of the earliest Goths ; for 

 immediately towards the west, the line of migration 

 through Cabul is found interrupted by invaders from 

 both sides ; and history is full of the contests which 

 very different nations have maintained in that region. 

 There are even now found upon this line remaining 

 tribes of Persians, Usbeks, Toorkees, Mokrees, Reekas, 

 Kalmucks, Arabs, Kirguise, Hindoos, Punjaubees, Cash- 

 merians, and Lesghis, which last are among those most 

 nearly allied to the primaeval stock ; for after travers- 

 ing the space disturbed by migrating collisions, chiefly 

 Turkoman, we find these and the Circassians, Abas- 

 sians, Georgians, Albanians, &c., likewise refugees, in 

 the highest glens of the Caspian Caucasus ; and in 

 remote ages, there is no doubt that some of them once 

 extended along the southern coast of the Caspian and 

 Georgia, onwards to the Borysthenes, and through Asia 

 Minor to the mountains of Thessaly and Greece, 



