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of development which that stock displays towards the south 

 and west. 



The earliest Chinese annals may not in reality belong to the 

 beardless races, hut he an appropriation made by them alter 

 their first conquests were effected ; for the Chinese b< roes and 

 social institutions, including Foh himself, have, in their human 

 relations, characters that do not helong so much to them as to 

 their predecessors, the Kinto Moey, or Yuchi. They have 

 also usages, like the feast of lanterns, which have no proper 

 meaning in their legends, though, like the Hoolee of India in 

 substance,- they may be regarded as the same, since they are 

 both dedicated to the opening spring. It is doubtful whether 

 at Canton the votaries of Budha understand the hymns sung by 

 them in his praise; for they are obtained from Ceylon, though 

 the religious system itself is derived originally from Thibet, or 

 perhaps, with still more certainty, from the more western 

 portion of High Asia, before the Hyperborean diffusion reached 

 that quarter. 



The beardless stock, in its primaeval abode, may not have 

 attained the full stature of Caucasians. Migration to more 

 southerly regions, still more, innervation derived from inter- 

 union with bearded races, probably gave it the development 

 now attained ; for no giant tribes are recorded among the 

 unadulterated nations of Mongolic origin; and many instances 

 occur, where, like Anna Comnena, speaking of the first 

 appearance of the Turks, they are described to be of small 

 stature. Here, like in other cases, it should be borne in 

 mind that the ruling tribes and royal clans, the greatest 

 sharers in the division of spoil, possessed the principal propor- 

 tion of Caucasian captive females, and thence acquired an 

 external superiority of aspect, as well as much greater cerebral 

 expansion. This fact is forcibly shown in the Osmanli and 

 Toorkee dynasties of Europe and Persia. Mythology and 

 romance notice dwarfs and Pypilikas, or gold-finding ants (pos- 

 sibly a mole of describing the gold miners of the Altaic range), 



