ETHNOLOGY, ETC., OF CHINA. 193 
NOTES. 
Tae limits within which such a paper as the present must of 
necessity be restricted render it impracticable to do more than briefly 
glance at certain points of the general subject in hand, which, from 
their very nature, could only be satisfactorily dealt with at greater 
length than is thus possible. Hven with the aid of the following 
notes, no more than a very partial view can be conveyed of con- 
ditions pertaining to the ancient periods referred to; but it is hoped 
that the additional information now to be added may be deemed 
sufficiently important to justify the insertion of it in this form, 
namely :— 
1. Jats. Several clans of the tribe so called inhabit the North- 
western provinces of India, including Delhi, the Upper Doab, and 
the Punjab. The origin of the name is by some authors referred to 
Xanthii, thus assigning to them a Mongolian ethnology. Other 
authors, however, consider that in race they are purely Aryan; and 
refer their birth-place to a small district situated to the south-east 
of the Caspian Sea, and westward of ancient Sogdiana and 
Bactriana. 
2. The Chinese, properly so called, page 172.—Adverting to the 
text, and adopting the theory that the original home of the Chinese 
people was in the West, that their line of migration eastward was by 
direct route over the passes over the Hindoo Kush, and through 
Tibet, we may reasonably assume that a separation took place 
among them as they reached the Kwan-lun Mountains; that 
thus the Huns or Turks became separated from southern families 
by that mountain-range and the Gobi desert, till both divisions met 
again long afterwards about the northern bend of the Hoangho; 
whereas the Siamese, Burmese, Assamese, and the northern and 
southern Chinese would be one people till they separated with 
the five great rivers that take their rise in the tuble-land of Tibet, 
namely, the Brahmaputra, Irawaddy, Mukong, Yangtzekiang, and 
Hoangho. Of the tribes who descended by the two last-named 
rivers, those who chose the course of the Yangtze became “the 
ungovernable vermin” of the south. By the. spread of a 
knowledge of writing from the tribes on the Hoangho, north and 
