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the greater part living in the volcanic region on the ^letliterranean Sea. The 

 religion is the Roman and Greek Catholic. 



The second large stock of people is the Germanic or central, of a power- 

 ful frame, with less sharply marked features ; hair mostly blond ; blue or 

 grey eyes ; a more sedate, firm carriage, and a fixed ease of manner. In 

 an intellectual point of vicAv, it is distinguished by tranquil reflection, strong 

 reasoning powers, deep, quiet feelings, firmness, candor, absence of 

 southen duplicity and falsehood, as well as by indefatigability in labor. 

 The people of this stock have a fondness for spirituous liquors. The 

 languages are the Germanic, and the religion chieflv Protestant. Here belong 

 the people of Germany, Holland, Denmark, Scandinavia, and England, for 

 the most part living upon the central chain of mountains and upon the 

 North Sea and Baltic. The English and Dutch, by reason of their mari- 

 time commerce, have acquired a character somewhat different from the 

 above. Finally the Slavonic or Oriental stock, which inhabits Russia, 

 Poland, and non-German Austria, professes in general the Greek religion, 

 and speaks the Slavonic languages. The frame is muscular, the physi- 

 ognomy coarse, savage, and expressive of sensualit}'. The spirits are 

 easily elevated or depressed ; the will strong : the imagination seldom very 

 lively. The people of this stock have a hankering after solid food ; in 

 abundance they readily indulge to superfluity, but are capable also of 

 enduring a long abstinence. Susceptible of high development by civiliza- 

 tion, they are degraded by tyrannical treatment to a state little higher than 

 that of beasts. Polish men of rank have become refined in their manners 

 through western civilization ; the common people, on the other hand, are still 

 quite rude. 



The remaining smaller stocks in Europe are : — (1) The Iberians or Basques, 

 in Spain and France : (2) the Celts, including the true Celts, in Ireland, the 

 Highlands of Scotland, and upon the Isle of Man : the Welsh (Cymri) in 

 Wales, and the Bretons in France : (3) the Tschudes (Uralians), the Finns, 

 Esthes, Lapps, Tcheremisses, Tchuwaches, Watiaks, Kumans, Udi, Woguls, 

 and Magyars (Hungarians) : (4) the Samoyedes, in the polar regions : 

 (5) Turks — Osmanni, Turcomans, Baschkirs : (G) Calmucs : (7 to 14) the 

 inhabitants of Caucasus, with Avari, Kasikumuks, Akooches, Koorahs, 

 Circassians, Abassians, Mizchegis, and the Ossetes (Bucharians) : (15) the 

 Semites — Jews and Maltese : (16) the Hindoos, or rather the Zigeuni 

 (Gypsies) descended from them : and (17) the Armenians. 



In our short description of the inhabitants of Europe, after having first 

 treated of Germany, including Austria, Prussia, and Switzerland, we will 

 from thence pass on to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway (Scandinavia.) Taking 

 up, next, England, Ireland, and Scotland (Great Britain), w^e will then turn 

 to Russia, go through the whole of Eastern Europe, not forgetting the nations 

 of Asiatic Russia, and finally visit Turkey, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, 

 and France. 



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