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elsewhere yet more brilliant feats than this, throwing upon the great 

 antihistoric movements of natious a light as splendid as useful. But, if 

 I hold forth, before hand, the probable result of this investigation in 

 the shape of a striking hypothesis in order to stimulate the pains-tak- 

 ing accumulator of facts, and even intimate that our present materials 

 already offer the most encouraging earnest of success, I trust that the 

 whole tenour and substance of my essay on the Koch, Bodo and Dhi- 

 mal will suffice to assure all candid persons that I am no advocate for 

 sweeping conclusions from insufficient premises, and that I desire to see 

 the ethnology of India conducted upon the most extended scale, with 

 careful weighing of every available item of evidence that is calculated 

 to demonstrate the unity,* or otherwise, of the Tamulian race. 



* This unity can of course only touch the grander classifications of language, and 

 be analogous to that which aggregates, for example, Sanscrit, Greek, Teutonic and 

 Celtic. 



