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Mr. Campbell then rose to propose the third resolution, of which he 

 had given notice, and addressed the meeting to the following effect: — 



" 1 hope we may look to see the way paved for a great Ethnological 

 Congress, not by one only, but by many local Exhibitions. I have 

 addressed myself more particularly to that which we may, I trust, 

 before long have in Calcutta; but there is one other locality which I 

 would also wish to be permitted to make the subject of a special 

 motion, on account of its extreme importance. I allude to the Punjab. 

 I may almost sav. that if one-half of the races of mankind are to be 

 found in Bengal, the other half may be found in and about the Pun- 

 jab. At any rate not only all India, but all Asia, and a good deal 

 besides, would be represented at the two points of Calcutta, and Lahore 

 or Peshawur : the south and east at the one, the north and west at the 

 other. If the varieties to be found in Bengal are perhaps more nu- 

 merous and more original, on the other hand, the highest types of the 

 human race are to be found in and near the Punjab. The farther 

 you go towards the northwest of India, the finer and handsomer do the 

 people become, and I have no hesitation in saying, that the very high- 

 est development of the human race, the greatest personal beauty of 

 feature and form, is to be found in those regions ; while, in point of men- 

 tal acuteness also, the Cashmeree, for instance, is probably excelled by 

 no race in the world. The people of the Punjab plains, though some- 

 what dark, arc really as fine a race as can anywhere be seen, and in the 

 hills immediately beyond, we have races free from any intermixture of 

 the blood of the Southern Aborigines, (which probably more or less 

 intermingles with most Indian races) ; the very purest Arians, fair, ro- 

 bust, high-featured, eminently handsome. Whether we European 

 Arians have mingled with some aboriginal Esquimaux or Finns or 

 primeval Fish-eaters of some sort, I do not know; but we cannot all be 

 said to be remarkably beautiful, especially the labouring classes. 

 In the hills of the Indian Caucasus, almost every coolie that you meet 

 with a load of apples on his back, might be taken in marble as a model 

 of the human kind. In the Punjab then, from among the various 

 races of Punjabees of the plains and hills, the Cashincrces, the Aff- 

 ghans, (lie Chilasees and Kaffirs, the Persians and Beloochis, as well 

 :i^ some of the Northern Ilindustanee tribes, might be collected the 

 finest show 01 Arians possible in the world. Again, specimens of all 



