500 Literary Intelligence. [No. 5. 



a fresh series of Himalayan tongues, and one of very great value as 

 serving to add several links to the chain of affinities that else had 

 been wanting. These new tongues are those of the broken tribes 

 of Himalaya of which the Chepang, already published, is one. Our 

 broken tribes are precisely analogous to those of China, Indo- China, 

 Malaya, Polynesia and Tamulia ; and the state of the languages 

 every where reveals the same fact, that successive waves of one and 

 (essentially) the same human tide swept over the South from the 

 North, some reaching our India direct from Tibet, others indirect 

 from Indo- China.' 



" With reference to Indian philology only, the following are the 

 results of my researches. 1st, That all the cultivated Tamulian 

 tongues (in Ceylon as well as Deccan) are essentially one. 2nd, 

 That the whole of the uncultivated Tamulian tongues (Kol, Gondi, 

 Maler, Lerka, &c.) are essentially one. 3rd, That the above two classes 

 are essentially but one and the same class. 4th, That that class is the 

 Tartaric, to use its largest and general designation. 5th, That a vast 

 number of the most indispensable vocables of the so-called Arian 

 vernaculars of India (Hindi, Urdu, Asamese, Bengali, Uria, Mah- 

 ratti, &c.) are thoroughly Tartar. 6th, That a very considerable 

 number of Sanskrit vocables of the most indispensable use, are 

 Tartar, and that not merely in their ordinary or composite, but also 

 in their radical forms. 



" So far from seeking I have rather avoided such words as belong 

 to 5 and 6, lest I should retard the reception of my more immediate 

 and more general results ; but I have found it impossible to leave those 

 words out of view altogether, and, though I do not anticipate ever 

 becoming an advocate of the doctrine of Dr. Latham and Mr. 

 Crawfurd, yet am I already much struck with the fact that very 

 numerous words in my vocabularies, against which when they were 

 compiled I wrote H. U. or S. to denote a Hindi, Urdu or Sanskrit 

 origin, turn out upon closer investigation to be thoroughly Tartar, 

 even when analysed and resolved into their roots, as well as when 

 taken statu quo of speech and book." 



In Jameson's Journal for April will be found a paper by Dr. Buist, 

 on the Physical Geography of Hindustan. 



Lieut Eastwick has brought out a 2nd edition of the two first vols. 



