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Himalayan basins of the Ganges and Bramnhrratra, in Aflam, and 

 in the watara projection of ihe Traniindien highlands which eaten 

 info the southern and eastern part of the Brahmaputra basin. 

 The Tibetan races are spread along the whole of the great 

 trnn*-Himlavan depression or from the Hindu Khu to the 

 borders of China, Tiiey meet and partially blend, physiolojrically, 

 linguistically or morally, with Indian races along the entire length 

 of the Himalaya, In the wealern extremity the latter prevail and. 

 the physiological boundary gradually but irregularly descends from 

 the highest ranges, till it embraces the tipper habitable portions of 

 the Sutlej, Jumna and Ganges alpine basins in Bisahar and 

 Gharwal, after which it ascends again where the Tibetan depression 

 is most elevated and contracted and thinly peopled, there bein^ 

 apparently no Tibetan mixture in Kunnon. 



The large Turanianism observable in Aisara and the northern 

 and eastern sides of the plain of Bengal, the considerable contrast 

 which even the proper Bengali peasantry afford buth physically 

 and morally to the Hindustanis, the fact of Turanian tnbes being 

 preserved on the opposite sides of the common valley of the 

 Ganges and Brahmaputra in the Hajmahal and Garo mountains, as 

 well"as all alon$ its northern and eastern margin, and as tar as the 

 upper basin of the Tapti to the S. W., warrant the conclusion that 

 similar tribes once occupied all the lower part of the Gangetic 

 basin. . 



The northern Indo- African tribes appear to have occupied the 

 western part of the Gangetic basin, — the opposite sides of wluch 

 •till preserve remnants of them in the Chamang, Domsand Eawais 

 on the N. and the Bhits and other allied tribes on the 8.,— a large 

 portion* of those of the Nerbudda and Tapti, and probably the 

 upper branches of the Godavery and "Kishna, as well as all tha § 

 western scabord from the Gonjrawally northward. Their N. W. 

 boundary must have been gradually driven in by the advance of 

 the Aryan tribes. Before the rise of the Iranian tribes, tribes 

 intermediate between Iranian and Turanian, probably occupied 

 the basin of the Indus and even extended N. and W. so as to 

 connect themselves on the one side with the ancient Africo-Semitio 

 and on the other wirh the Mid-Asian. 



The southern Indo- African tribes were a continuation of tho^e of 

 the N. W. and the Tamil and other populous ones appear to have 

 owed to their lar^e river basins and to the influences received from 

 E^rvpt and 8. W. Asia, the civilisation which enabled them so 

 greatly to surpass their northern neighbours, f As far as can be 

 gathered from the present distribution of the tribes, the wholeoflndia 

 would thus appear to have been physiologically divided by an irre- 

 gular line running from the alpine basin of the Kali to the upper 

 basin of the Tapti and thence B.E, along the Wards and Gadavery 



jJThc UftMtu Iwwctw seem to have partatata krgdy of the EgjpU*n cirflU 



