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the Kouri of West Africa. The great^ Carib group is connected with those of 

 Dahomey and Whydah. 



The close connexion of the Guarani and Omagua with the Abhaas of Caucasia and 

 the Agaw of the Nile, in grammar and roots, embraces the Guarani, Tupi, Om-agiia, 

 Mundrucu, Apiaca of Brazil, the Movima Saraveca &c. of the Missions, the S. Pedro 

 and Coretu of the Orinoco. More distant are the Skwali, Sekumne, and Tsamak 

 of California. 



The want of better knowledge was accounted for by imperfect information as to 

 the languages of the Old and the New World, and by the disappearance of whole 

 formations of languages, leaving only surviving a few detached and ill-connected 

 members, much altered by subsequent influences. 



A tradition of the Americas and Australia was attributed to the Greek, Roman, 

 and mediaeval geographers. 



On the Asliantee and Fantee Languages. By Hyde Clakke, 



These, together with the Dzellaua, were classified with the Korean and the Cho- 

 temachs assigned as a North-*\L.merican branch. It was noted, in reference to the 

 common oingin of culture, that the Oricas had, like the Ashantees, established a large 

 kingdom and repulsed European forces. 



On the Report concerning Bushman researches of Dr. W. U. Bleeic, Ph.D. 



By Hyde Clarke. 



Dr. Bleek had been supplied by the authorities of the Cape of Good Hope with 

 a large munljer of Bushmen convicts. From these he had written down more than 

 four thousand columns (half pages quarto) of text, besides a dozen genealogical 

 tables, and other genealogical, geographical, pathological, &c. notices. An English- 

 Bushman vocabulary of 142 pages and a Bushman-English one of (100 pages have 

 been formed. The mj'thology in which animals and heavenly objects are personified 

 is largely illustrated. It is expected that the Cape legislature will authorize the 

 publication of these important materials for anthropological investigations. 



On the Northern Ratige of the Iberians in Europe. 

 By W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., F.ll.S. 



The range of the Iberian Basque, or Euskarian peoples, characterized b)' their 

 small stature, dark complexion, jet-black hair and eyes, oval face, and orthognathic 

 skull, Avas examined from the point of view offered by history. In the earliest 

 records the population of the Iberic peninsula was composed of two elements, the 

 northern, to which its name is due, and the southern or Celtic, the fusion between 

 the two being proved by the name Celtiberi, or Castilians. In France, at the time 

 of the conquest by the Ivomans, the Iberic element was represented by the Aquitani 

 in the region boimded by the Garonne and Gironde, but whose north-eastern frontier 

 was subsequently extended to the Loire (Ligur). Between them and the allied 

 Ligmian tribes on the borders of the Mediten-anean a broad band of Celtse inter- 

 posed, marking that the eastern Pyrenees was the route by which the Celtic invasion 

 of Spain took place. The Beiges pressed on the Celtae, occupying the valley of the 

 Bhine. The same sequence of peoples was maintained in Britain. In the west of 

 Wales the Iberians were represented by the Silures ; the Celtse occupied the greater 

 part of the island, and the Belgw had taken possession of the maritime region. The 

 dark-haired inhabitants of South-west Ireland were of Iberian descent, and the 

 Celta3 possessed most of the island. These " ethnological islands " of Iberians, in 

 Ireland, in Wales, in South-east France, and it may be added in Sicily, isolated by 

 a sea of Celt from the mainland of Basques, proved that the Iberic peoples were 

 once distributed through the area under consideration before the Celtaj had driven 

 them away to the west. 



This conclusion is confirmed by an examination of the contents of ossiferous 

 caves and of tumuli, by which they were shown to have extended as far north 



