38 VARIETIES OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. 



under Lord Hutchinson, imagined that they found their own temples in the ruins of Dendera, and 

 were greatly exasperated at the natives for their neglect of the ancient deities whose images are still 

 preserved ; and they proceeded to perform their devotions with all the ceremonies practised in their 

 own land.''* 



8. THE MONGOL-TARTAR FAMILY. 



This vast family, which is called by the various names of Tartar, Mongol 

 and Scythian, now occupies nearly half of Asia and part of Europe, and is 

 composed of several branches speaking dijBFerent languages, yet possessing a general 

 resemblance in their manners and personal appearance. In order to avoid repe- 

 tition we shall proceed at once to give some account of these several divisions.f 



1 . The Finnish Branchy or Tchudes. Of these the Finns inhabit the north 

 of Europe between the 60th and 65th degree of north latitude. Though a colony 

 from Asia, they have for many ages occupied their present seats, and are now 

 subject to Sweden. They are of middling stature, with broad faces, dark eyes 

 and sallow complexion. They have schools and academies, are slow but shrewd, 

 and have made considerable progress in the arts and sciences. 



The Ingrians resemble the Finns in exterior, but they are stupid, suspicious 

 and thievish, whence their poverty and vagabond habits. 



The Cheremish inhabit the province of Kasan. They were originally a 

 pastoral and wandering tribe, and even now never dwell in towns ; but they have 

 assumed agricultural habits, though without industry or enterprise. 



The Mordvines are settled on the rivers Oka and Volga in the government 

 of Kasan. They are of a brown complexion, with harsh hair, and lean face, of 

 inactive habits yet honest and hospitable. 



The Votiaks^ who also inhabit the province of Kasan, are of meagre person 

 and middling stature, and resemble the Finns more than any nation that derives 

 its origin from them. 



The Vogouls, who dwell in the forests north of Mount Ural, are of a gay 

 disposition, honest, shrewd, and laborious, yet fickle and slov^enly to excess. They 

 are a pastoral tribe, and the northern horde domesticates the reindeer. Other 

 communities of the Finnish stock inhabit the Russian province of Permia, where 

 they are called Permians. 



* Anc. and Mod. Egypt, Introd. p. 20.~See also London Quart. Rev. XVI, p. 18. Jim. ed. 



tThe materials of this chapter are derived almost exclusively from Tooke's -Russm, passim, 

 and Abitl Ghaze, History of the Tartars.-In distributing the Mongol-Tartar family into branches, I 

 have been chiefly governed by the diff-erence in language, and have followed the first named author. 



