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people held out against the Romans and Greeks, and even to this day 
their successors are mighty troublesome to the Turks, and they have 
retained the old type: so much have they retained their inde- 
pendence and warlike character, that I dare say some of you re- 
member that in 1879 there was considerable trouble and disturbance 
raised in Parliament about the massacres that took place in the 
neighbourhood. They are very good representatives of the Hittite 
people,—they were just that class of powerful mountain people. 
A work by M. Perrot has just been published which contains a 
summary of the question from an archeological point of view, which 
brings some interesting facts forward with regard to the Cappa- 
docians, and which I think would be worth studying. 
Rev. F. A. Watxer, D.D.— At Cassaba Dorghuda railway station, 
58 miles from Smyrna, along the line to Sardis and Philadelphia, I 
saw several Cappadocians, with very distinct physiognomy and dress, 
the characteristics of both of which seem to have been preserved 
through past centuries. 
Mr. Boscawen.—I know that those I came in contact with carried 
arms; but they were not much used. A great deal has been said 
at different times about the high boot. It is a curved up boot,— 
simply the boot of a mountaineer, which generally gets a curved toe; 
but in the sculptures on the rocks and other representations of 
Hittite soldiers you see these men with high boots, with their legs 
bandaged round, and carrying a short dirk and girdle, and 
wearing a cap almost the same as the people in that district now 
wear. 
The AvurHor.—I should have been disappointed if, after coming 
up and offering battle on the subject of the Hittites, I had not 
met with competent scholars, and this evening I have been more 
fortunate than I remember ever being before, in having two 
such authorities to criticise my paper. Mr. Boscawen is very well 
known as a student of this particular subject, and Mr. Pinches is 
probably the safest authority we possess in England on the Akkadian 
language. But it is still more satisfactory to my mind, that Mr. 
Boscawen should have devoted himself to endeavouring to prove my 
thesis. In the first place, he tells us that the Cappadocians bear a 
very strong resemblance to the people represented on the Hittite 
monuments. I was prepared to hear this, and knew it, to a certain 
extent, before; but he has not told us to what race these inhabitants 
of the regions of the Taurus belong. From what we have been 
told by Sir Charles Wilson, it appears that the basis of that popula- 
tion in Asia Minor is an ancient Turkic population. I have seen 
