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impression, but rather as Wood remarks 1 "The uncouth - 

 ness and wildness of their aspect is calculated at first to 

 strike a stranger with dismay or repugnance." Upon closer 

 examination, however, the forbidding exterior is largely 

 lost sight of in view of their quiet demeanor and gentle 

 though rude politeness which is so constantly manifested. 

 In respect to external features, the Saghaliens produce a 

 really favorable impression which is in very marked con- 

 trast to the feelings developed by contact with a Yezoine. 

 It is hardly to be doubted, however, that this arises largely 

 from the fact that the former are usually cleanly in appear- 

 ance, while the bodies of the latter look as if water had 

 never come in contact with them. 



The opinion is sometimes expressed that the Japanese are 

 an offshoot of the Ainos, but a critical examination of the 

 pure types would not permit such a belief to be entertained. 

 There is an undoubted mixture of Japanese and Ainos, as 

 invariably occurs along the border line of contact between 

 two distinct people, and this half-breed type is as easily 

 recognized in those j>arts of northern Jajjan where it chiefly 

 occurs, as it is in our own Northwest. The Japanese, how- 

 ever,- are unquestionably Mongoloid, while the facts here 

 stated not only show the Ainos to be physically distinct, 

 but the accounts given by our best authorities all agree in 

 the great resemblance which they bear to Europeans, — the 

 prevailing view being that they are distinctly Aryan. 



Meteorological Observations for 1885. 



By C. H. McLeod. 



The table on a succeeding page is a summary of the 

 meteorological observations made in 1885 at the McGill 

 College Observatory, Montreal. The observatory is situ- 

 ated at the height of 187 feet above the level of the sea. 

 Latitude N. 45° 30 ' 11 ". Longitude 4 h 54 m 18 8 55, W. 



The year 1885 had an average temperature of 2°. 6 below 



1 Trans. Eth. Soc, New Ser,, iv. 34, etc. 



