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the ears. Rising pyramidally from the zygoince to the crown of 

 the head. Facial angle not bad, the forehead retiring and narrow- 

 ing only slightly, the mouth not being porrect, nor the chin retiring 

 but pointed. Eyes remote, not small, but the upper lids flaccid 

 and somewhat down-curved at the inuer can thus. Nose pyramidal, 

 not levelled between the eyes nor the extremity much thickened, 

 but the nares large and round. Mouth large but well fermed, with 

 neatly shaped lips and vertical fine teeth. 



The younger man above alluded to was 5.5.0 and as dark as an 

 ordinary native of the plains whom he further resembled in his 

 unflatted, face though his eye wanted the fullness and shapeliness of 

 that of the lowlanders beside whom I placed him. 



When placed beside some Dhangars of the Uraon tribe the impres- 

 sion made upon me by a comparison of the whole was, that the 

 physical type is one and the same in the highlanders and low- 

 landers ; that the type is flexible to a large extent ; and that the 

 general effect of the northman's residence for ages in the malarious 

 and jungly swamps of the plains is to cause the Turanian type to 

 incline towards the Negro type but with a wide interval from the 

 latter. The Uraon compared with the Vayu has less breadth of 

 head and face, more protuberance of mouth, and a better shaped, 

 larger eye, not down curved next the nose ; and it is thus, I conceive, 

 that the Negro type differs from the Turanian. 



On the Kirdnti tribe of the Central Himalaya. — By B. H. 

 Hodgson, Esq?. 



It has been the main purpose of one of the preceding papers to 

 examine the grammatical structure of the Kiranii language as a 

 second sample of that class of Himalayan tongues (the Vayu tongue, 

 already examined, being the first) which I have elsewhere denomina- 

 ted the pronomenalized or complex.* 



The opinion of such scholars as Muller and Caldwell that the 

 Himalayan tongues have nothing Dravidian about them, can thus 



* See essay on physical geography of Himalaya and other papers now issuing 

 from the Calcutta press under the auspices of Government. 



