62 On the Mongolian Affinities of the Caucasians. [No. 1. 



own large stores from the Himalaya, Tibet, Sifan, Indo-china and 

 Tamulian India, to satisfy me that the widest assumed scope of Al- 

 lophylian affinities might be placed on an unassailable basis. Again, 

 a renewed reference to well known works* has equally satisfied me 

 that nothing short of a careful analytical demonstration would be 

 accepted after the frequent insufficiently supported assertions, and 

 more or less superficial investigations that have been given to the 

 world, even Dr. Latham's splendid panoramic view of the subject, 

 though in fact well grounded on the opinions at least of numerous 

 scholars,f and fortified, moreover, by the adduction of some special 

 evidence^ either priorly overlooked or only recently accessible, hav- 

 ing met with a cold, not to say a scoffing, reception. § 



I therefore beg permission to withhold for the present the com- 

 parative list of Caucasian and Mongolian vocables which I had pre- 

 pared to accompany the above paper on the resemblance of Circas- 

 sian and Gyarung pronouns, pledging myself that that list shall ere 

 long be submitted to the Society, so amplified, and analysed, as to 

 enable the scholar both to test and to extend the analogies sampled 

 by the list. || 



In the meanwhile and with reference to the above paper I sub- 

 join some farther explanations which will not only serve to illustrate 

 more fully its special topic (pronouns), but to show how continued 

 attention to the general topic teems with fresh proofs of the sound- 

 ness of the opinion that Caucasus is essentially Tartaric, and that 

 the widest sense of the word Tartaric is the truest. 



Klaproth, who was too well informed on the subject to insist on 

 the Arian origin of the Caucasians generally, yet contended that the 

 Osi were Indo-germanic. 



I shall soon be able, I think, to show that the elements and the 

 mechanism of words in the Osetic tongue are purely Tartar, and that 



* Prichard III. 13 et seq ; IV. 384 et seq. Report of the British Association for 

 1850, p. 174 et seq. Madras Journal for July 1837, and January, June 1850. 



f Klaproth, Dobrosky, Rask, Rolt, Norris, &c. &c. 



X Brown's Indo-Chinese vocabularies, and Rosen's Caucasian Researches. 



§ Edinburgh Review. Article Bopp's Grammar. 



|| This has been done, I hope tolerably effectually, in the list as it now 

 stands. 



