ON THE CANAANITES. 79 
REMARKS ON THE FOREGOING PAPER. 
Canon Isaac Taytor, LL.D., writes :-— 
“ Though not convinced by Major Conder’s arguments, which 
leave room for criticism, the solution of the problem which he has 
proposed,seems to me on @ prior? grounds more probable than any 
other which has been suggested.” 
Proressor G. W. Leitner, D.C.L., D.O.L., says :— 
“Tam not well enowgh to come to your meeting to-night; but I hope 
that it will be as numerously and influentially attended as Major 
Conder’s paper deserves. I think that his communication is not only 
highly suggestive, but also most instructive. I have read it with atten- 
tion, but it obviously requires careful study, and this Iam unable to 
give at present. The connexion between the Hittites and the Khitai 
seems to be probable. In 1884 a paper by Professor Campbell, on 
a supposed Hittite inscription found at Attock, was published by 
me in the English Journal of the Angumani-i-Punjab Society, and 
my present report on the Hunza language brings to light a number 
of linguistic and quasi-prehistoric remnants which may throw light 
on the indigenous Zuechi and the conquering Khitai, and which 
I will submit to the Institute.” 
Mr. G. Bertin, M.R.A.S., forwards the following, remarking 
that it “will be seen that he agrees with Major Conder on the 
main points of his paper.” He says :— 
“There can be now little doubt of the existence of a non-Semitic 
population in Syria in early times ; the fact was suspected, but 
it is only lately that it has been demonstrated, and Major 
Conder has done much for that. If I do not agree with all 
the derivations given by the author, I acknowledge that a great 
many are plausible. The difficulty with the so-called Hittite texts 
is that we have no bi-lingual inscriptions, for I still doubt the 
