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The evidence upon which I rest my belief of the funda- 

 mental unity of the three philological groupes of the Malay, 

 Papua, and Australian languages, is, of the sort called 

 cumulative ; and it is the only evidence that our present 

 data will afford us. 



Believing, however, in such a fundamental unity, the 

 problem to be solved by further researches on the vocabu- 

 laries from either Torres Strait or the South of New 

 Guinea, is the problem as to the particular quarter from 

 which New Holland was peopled — whether from New 

 Guinea, or from Timor. Such a problem is not beyond the 

 reach of future philologists. 



In the fifth volume of Dr. Prichard's valuable work, I 

 find that, Mr. Norriss has indicated points of likeness 

 between the Australian dialects, and the Tamul languages 

 of Southern India. 



Such may be the case. If, however, the statements of 

 those philologists who connect on one side the Tamul, and 

 on the other the Malay, with the Monosyllabic languages, 

 be correct, the two affinities are compatible. 



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