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make .hem applicable to a favorite theory. Our conclusions 

 we shall rarely find at variance with linguistic relations, when 

 these are fairly tested by circumstances. Here we endeavor to 

 trace Man back from known conditions to others anterior to 

 them, but which must of necessity have been in his career, 

 though it may be that they occurred some centuries sooner or 

 later. It is in this manner we find the reasons for assuming 

 that the Caucasian stock, traced up to the earliest period, was 

 nestling in or above the glens of Hindu-Koosh and the neigh- 

 boring mountain ranges; for there we find it already distin- 

 guished in two or three well marked varieties of color, the 

 swarthy and the fair, and subdivided in several secondary 

 shades, each having homogeneous features, limbs, and intellect- 

 ual capacities. We can even point out the particular geo- 

 graphical localities which several must have occupied; and 

 from what has been stated already in the remarks on the 

 Hindu-Papua tribes, and again on the Caucaso-Mongole or 

 Finnic races, the gradual passage of one typical form to the 

 intermediate. We have, in the remarks upon these subtypical 

 tribes, had occasion to point out the evident possession of 

 Thibet, of parts of China and Mongolia, by the bearded race ; 

 and that they are noticed in early Chinese authorities by the 

 names of Kinto-Moey and Yuchi ; and still in part are occupiers 

 of the more inaccessible mountains of the interior, bearing the 

 contemptuous appellations of Miau-tze and Mou-laou. Even 

 western geographers were not entirely ignorant of this fact, 

 since by them Gangarides are placed on the Brahmaputra ; 

 and the antique presence of Sanscrit, that most extensive of all 

 languages, is attested, by innumerable denominations, far 

 beyond these regions, since we find them pervading the 

 greater part of Thibet and Indo-China. 



As the predominant external character, and the correspond- 

 ing intellectual tendencies of the Caucasian Man are found to 

 assimilate with the other two typical stocks in proportion as 

 they approach geographically to, and mix with them, the inter- 



