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the Mongolian type, to which they were most strictly allied, so 

 long as they remained unmixed. 



THE TURKS. 



Thus, the Atrak Turks, more especially the Osmanlis, differ 

 from the other Toorkees, by their lofty stature, European feat- 

 ures, abundant beards, and fair complexions, derived from 

 their original extraction being Caucasian, of Yuchi race, or 

 from an early intermixture with it, and with the numerous cap- 

 tives they were for ages incorporating from Kashmere, Affghan- 

 istan, Persia, Syria, Natolia, Armenia, Greece, and eastern 

 Europe. Both these conjectures may be true, because the Cau- 

 casian stock, wherever we find it, contrives to rise into power, 

 from whatever source it may be drawn, and therefore may in 

 part have been pure before the nation left eastern Asia, 

 while the subordinate hordes remained more or less Hyperbo- 

 rean in character; as, in truth, the normal Toorkees about the 

 lower Oxus still are. All have, however, a peculiar form of 

 the posterior portion of the skull, which is less in depth than 

 the European, and does not appear to be a result of the 

 tight swathing of the turban. Osmanli Turks are a handsome 

 race, and their children in particular are beautiful. The 

 Tschudic Toorkees, moreover, had in ancient times a Sabsean 

 alphabet, written vertically from right to left, not brought, as 

 De Sacy appears to believe, from Syria, by early Christian 

 sects, for in that case it would never have been distorted to a 

 Chinese mode of placing the lines. It is more likely the real 

 ancient Bactrian form, one connected wifi the literature and 

 science of remote ages, not to be so peremptorily rejected, be- 

 cause no other proofs of this kind of Runic or Ogham are now 

 to be found in the region where it flourished ; and the Sanscrit, 

 more perfect, and more extensively dominant, supplanted it, 

 even in Thibet. At a remote age, they came upon the Taujiks 

 /original Persians) ; they subdued or' expelled them, and named 



