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bitants of Beh ring's Straits, of the peninsula of 

 Alaska, and of Prince William's Sound. The 

 eastern and western branch * of this polar 

 race, the Eskimoes and the Tschougazes, not- 

 withstanding the enormous distance of eight 

 hundred leagues which separates them, are 

 united by the most intimate analogy of lan- 

 guages. This analogy extends, as has been 

 recently proved in the most evident manner, 

 even to the inhabitants of the north-east of 

 Asia ; for the idiom of the Tschouktsches *f- at 

 the mouth of the Anadir has the same roots, 

 as the language of the Eskimoes who inhabit 

 the coast of America opposite to Europe. The 

 Tschouktsches are the Eskimoes of Asia. Like 

 the Malays, this hyperborean race reside only 

 on the seacoasts. They live on fish, and are 

 almost all of a less stature than the other 

 Americans, quick, lively, and talkative. Their 

 hair is flat, straight, and black ; but their skin 

 (and this is very characteristic of that race, 

 which I shall designate under the name of 

 Tschougaz-Eskimoes,) is originally whitish. It 



* Vater, in Mithridates, vol. iii, P. iii, p. 425 — 468, Ege- 

 de, Crantz, Hearne, Mackenzie, Portlock, Chiwostoff, Da- 

 vidoff, Resanoff, Merk, and Billings, have described the 

 great family of these Tschougaz-Eskimoes. 



+ I only mean here the Tschouktsches who have fixed 

 dwelling places, for the wandering Tschouktsches approach 

 very near the Coriacs. 



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