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nearest ejected Cau:asian tribes in Eastern Asia, and also, in 

 extending along the arctic shores to the west. By means of 

 their snow skates, th?ir Reindeer, and their seal-skin coracles, 

 they found means to traverse a great space in less time than 

 other migrators ; to cross over ice in winter; to pass the Asiatic 

 Mediterranean, which, at that period, may not, as yet, have 

 been totally absorbed ; or to cross Behring's Strait, which, how- 

 ever, they do not seem to have accomplished until ages had 

 elapsed. In this manner, they came early in contact and com- 

 mixture with Caucasians, such as the western Yeta tribes, on 

 the shores of the sea, or those they may have found to the west 

 of it, about the Ouralian mountains, and formed the Finnic 

 subtypical stem, on one side, and the Tschudic on the other. 

 Both these suppositions are strengthened by the appearance of 

 Finnic words in the Mexican language, and by a similar occur- 

 rence in the Basque dialect of the Pyrenees, while, on the 

 plains of the north-west, other facts show how near an intimacy 

 was established between the ancient Swedes and the Huns, 

 and between these and the Magyars, who were kindred of the 

 Turks. 



While this stem of the Mongolic type is thus shown to have 

 spread at a remote period, and to have been mixed in the more- 

 temperate climates of the old continent, it is, in a pure state, 

 evidently less ancient than the other populations of America ; 

 for it has only been permitted to dwell in regions never occu- 

 pied, or totally forsaken by them, — that is, the Polar and 

 north-west coast; and as they were thus not wanted to assist 

 the necessities of anterior colonists, they have continued to be 

 regarded as enemies, being still unmercifully slaughtered by 

 the stern Indian, on all occasions where he can glut his passion 

 for bloodshed, under the pretext tl at all the Esquimaux are 

 sorcerers. 



