76 MAJOR C. R. CONDER, D.C.L., R.E., 
numbers of peasants on the coasts of Asia Minor who were, to all 
appearance, of the Mongolian type, and the nomenclature of the 
country to a great extent is pure Turkish. Therefore, while these 
Cappadocian and Marash people resemble the Hittites, it is evident, 
as far as I can gather, that if any pure race exists at the present 
day, they must be a Turkic people. I cannot agree that the 
Hittites are represented in the Bible as of the Semitic race. 
But the fact of the matter is, I think, Mr. Boscawen has 
hardly grasped what has been said by authorities on ethnology 
with regard to the physical type of the Mongolians. It is 
true that the extreme Mongolian type, as we have it among the 
Chinese and some of the northern Mongolians, presents itself to 
us in snub-noses and Chinese features; but I am assured by eth- 
nologists and anthropologists that this is not the normal Mongolian 
type, and we have photographic representations of such races with 
large, and in some cases, aquiline noses, though they are not 
supposed to be anything but Tartars. With regard to beards, some 
of these Mongolian people are bearded, and I once thought they 
could not be Tartars; but I was put right by an authority on Mon- 
golian types, who told me that although their beards grow very 
late in life, and though at the age of thirty they are a beardless 
people, still in a later period of life their beards grow to a 
considerable length, and very thick. There are, also, pictures taken 
from photographs representing elderly Tartars in the regions of 
the Oxus, with large beards. As to the Vannic language, the 
Vannic inscriptions have, to a great extent, been read, though 
only partly deciphered, by Professor Sayce and by others. The 
reason is that they are written toa great extent pictorially, and not 
written in syllables. 
Mr. Boscawrn.—The verbs are written phonetically. 
The Avurnor.—The verbs are written phonetically. It thus 
becomes necessary to study these verbs, to get the character of 
the language and the grammatical structure of the language, and 
from those together to form an estimate of the language, and 
Dr. Mordtmann describes it as an Aryan language akin to modern 
Armenian. This Professor Sayce denied. I have studied the sub- 
ject, and there are strong reasons for supposing it to be an Aryan 
inflectional language. If it is an Aryan inflectional language, it is 
almost impossible to suppose that it could be applied to a hieroglyphic 
writing, in which the pictorial form is preserved in almost the 
original shape. Such symbols belong to agglutinative, not to inflec- 
tional speech, and to the Hittite language. There are at least forty 
