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longer, the tide of Avian immigration was more gradual, and 

 the Aboriginal grammar and radicals formed the mould which 

 was only filled up by a large over-lay of Arian words. The 

 change then of language takes place, where passing southwards we 

 exchange the Maratta for Telugu and Canarese. But looking at 

 the people, we see no radical change of feature or characteristics. The 

 last of those who are more properly Arian in language, are not essen- 

 tially superior to the first of those whose language is by its structure 

 classed as Dravidian. The Marattas who are classed as Northerners 

 (though they probably take their name and much of their blood from 

 the aboriginal Mliars and such like tribes, whose features survive in 

 their monuments) have no decided advantage over their Canarese 

 neighbours ; on the contrary, the Canarese of Belgaum and Dharwar 

 are deemed superior to the Marattas of the adjoining districts. And 

 to a traveller in Mysore and most of the Southern countries, the 

 general features and appearance of the people is, I think, not very 

 greatly less Arian than that of the lower classes of Ilindustanees. 

 The truth I take to be, not only that in a mixture of races there is a 

 tendency of the higher, more marked, and more prominent type to 

 predominate, but also that it may well be that, although the people 

 speaking a Dravidian language in the South, may always by force of 

 numbers have linguistically prevailed over each separate batch of 

 immigrants, and so far annexed them, still by successive immigra- 

 tions, notwithstanding a Dravidian form of speech, the Arian blood 

 has come in reality greatly to prevail. The mere fact that they 

 are recognised as Orthodox Hindoos, seems to imply the Northern 

 origin of all the better castes in the South, and that is their own 

 account of their origin. I have no doubt that the Southern Hindoos 

 may be generally classed as Arians, and that the Southern society is 

 in its structure, its manners, and its laws and institutions an Arian 

 society. After all, in their main characteristics, the Southern people 

 are very like those of the North. 



Among some of the inferior tribes of the South, the remains of the 

 thick lips, the very black skin, and other features may, as I have said, 

 still be traced, but, colour perhaps excepted, the aboriginal features 

 are probably gradually wearing away. 



Notwithstanding the identity in the main of the North and the 



