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come from Central Asia ; and Dallas proposes Europe as the scene of 

 the origin of the Mongolian tribes, whence, he says, they may have 

 reached Asia by way of America (Dallas on Distrib. of Races, Journ. 

 Anthrop. Inst., Vol. X.Y., No. 3). There are, however, many 

 objections to Europe having been the primitive home of the so-called 

 Mongol peoples. The Basques are not truly a Mongolian or Turanian 

 people in the accepted sense of these terms. It is in the brown race 

 that created the civilization of the Nile, and whose extraordinary 

 culture meets us on the banks of the Euphrates, that the Basque 

 finds his nearest congeners ; the Finns and Lapps are later and ruder 

 developments from the same stock on another continent, the con- 

 tinent of America. 



In the dim past of antiquity, a branch of that same primitive 

 stock, from which the Basques, Egyptians, and earliest settlers of 

 Accad are descended, crossed over from Europe to America, at a 

 time when land connection between north-eastern Aruerica and 

 Western Europe via Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroes, still existed. 

 Other migrations may have taken place across the ocean, or by the 

 sunken Isle of Atlantis, from Western Europe and Northern Africa. 



It is from the race that pi'oduced the civilizations of Egypt and 

 Accad, rather than from the wandering Mongols of the Siberian 

 steppes, that I would seek to derive that race whose culture we see 

 in the valley of the Ohio, on the shores of lake Tezcuco, at Palenque, 

 Uxmal and Copan, and on the slopes of the Andes in Peru. The 

 " Mongol " race so termed I regard as a subsequent development, 

 starting from American soil, of the same primitive stock ; spreading 

 by Behring's Straits into Asia, and thence into Northern Europe ; 

 having since their departure fi'om America separated into numerous 

 petty tribes and undergone many and extensive changes in their 

 languages. 



The following coixiparative list will I think bear out the reason- 

 ableness of the views I have advanced ; as has been often remarked, 

 however, we cannot look for very striking evidences of community 

 of origin amongst the members of a stock which has been so widely 

 dispersed, and that, too, in the remote past. But subsequent study 

 will, I hope, reveal the true state of the case to be much as I have 

 stated it to be. 



