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turn to the physical characteristics I must add that all the languages 

 whose vocables are herewith submitted to the Society, are and always 

 have been devoid of letters and of literature, what writing there is 

 among these races being confined to the Tibet-trained monks whose 

 religious ministry they all accept, and who (the monks) use the 

 Tibetan system of writing applied solely to the Tibetan language and 

 never to that of their flocks, the several races now in question or any 

 of them. 



I cannot learn that in Tibet the Sokpo or the Horpa ever employ 

 any system of writing of their own, though I need not add (assuming 

 their identification to be just) that the Mongols and the Eastern 

 Turks have each their own system quite distinct from the Tibetan. 

 Having always considered the physical evidence* of race quite as 

 important as the lingual, and the one as the true complement of the 

 other, I have not failed to use the opportunity of access to the peoples 

 whose vocables are now transmitted in order to note their physical 

 traits. 



The following are the chief results of that investigation : — 



Amdoan. Horpa. Gydrung. Manyak. 



I. II. III. IV. 



Height without shoes, 5.8.* 5.7. £ 5.3.0 5.4.0 



Length of head, from crown to chin (with 



calipers), 8.* O.8.* 0.9.0 0.9.* 



Girth of head, 1.10.0 1.9.* 1.10.$ 1.10.$ 



Length of head, fore and aft or forehead to 



occiput 0.7 f 0.7.$ 0.8.0 0.8 



Width of head, between parietes O.6.* 0.6.0 0.6. f 0.6 f 



Crown of head to hip, 2.4$ 2.4.0 2.3.* 2.3.0 



Hiptoheel, 33.f 3.3.* 2.11.* 3.1.0 



Width between the shoulders, 1.4.0 1.1.0 1 . 1 .* 1.4.0 



Girth of chest, 3.1.0 2.9.0 2.11 a 2.114 



Length of arm and hand, 2.6.$ 2.6.0 2.4.$ 2.4.0 



Lengthofarm, 1.0.0 1.0.0 0.11.* 0.114 



Ditto of fore-arm 0.11.0 0.10.0 0.9* 0.9.$ 



Ditto of hand, 0.8.0 0.7.$ 0.7$ 0.74 



Ditto of thigh, 1.8.0 1.7.0 1.6| 1.7.0 



Ditto of leg, to ankle, 1.4.* 1-5.0 1.3.0 1.5.0 



Dittooffoot, 0.11.0 0.10.0 O.9.* 0.94 



Width of hand 0.4.$ 0.4.| 0.4.0 0.4.0 



Dittooffoot, 0.4$ 0.44 0.4* 0.40 



Girth of thigh, 1.9.0 1.4$ 1.6.$ 1.7.* 



Ditto of calf, 1.3.* l.l.f 1-2.0 1.1.* 



Ditto of fore-arm, 0.11.0 0.9.$ 0.10.0 0.9.* 



* Some attempts have recently been made (see last vol. of Brit. Assoc, and 

 Journal of Roy. As. Soc.) to disparage the value of this evidence. But no one 

 well acquainted with the Tartars in various remote locations could for a moment 

 think of so doing. I refer with confidence to Dr. Buchanan's remarks on the 

 subject in the V. vol. A si. Res. 



