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narr^a have Scytlitc, Iranian, Semitic, Caucasian nnd Afrfcan 

 atfiiiiticsi and it may be concludud ttiai (he cirilisiition of the 

 jmncipal Dravirlan nations was mainly doiived from foreign 

 iinmigrurit tribes, settlers and traiJoj-a who entered Itnlia from the 

 Nortli West or vii^iieJ it* coa^la frum the northeni ami western 

 porU of tlie Indian Ocean. Tlie principal nations of the South 

 are so cioacfy connect d in person, aria and hmguage, tijat we 

 cannot refuse to recognize in tliem the influence of one dtuninant 

 and civilised people whiuli at a remote period raifed itielf above 

 the level of the barharoua tribes of India, and then spread itself 

 by destroying, breaking up or transforming a large number of 

 these throu|^hout the morti open country, as the Arian race after^ 

 wanla tlid in the basiij) of the Imlies and Ganges. The diffidence in 

 physical characters between (he higher chisses of tliese nations and 

 porneof the lower castes anil hill tribea^ is so great as to indicaleabirjxe 

 influx of a foreign people, and it is possible that the Siight-r civili* 

 sation originated in a race of conquerors who were not sufficiently 

 numerous to maintain their own langnage. Whatever nations, — 

 Scythic, Iranian or Semitic — ^preecdecl the proper Hrahminic Ariani 

 in the N. W. of India and the adjacent countries beyond it, must 

 have influenced the principal or more civilised and exposed 

 Dravirians. Sucli influences operate, and must Lave operated in 

 all ages, wherever human races differing in power or civilisation 

 come in contact, and the tribcB of Intlia ha^e necessarily been al- 

 ways in iniuiediate contact with tribes bebn|j:iiig to the races that 

 predominated in sucreseion to the westward of the Fntlns, The 

 glossarial affinities with the Pashlu, Pai"h;H, Brabui and other N. 

 W. languages, althougli pre-Sanskntic, umy thus be com paratively 

 moilern. They tend to shew that the East Iranian and North In- 

 dian glossaries were connected with the South Indian prior to the 

 diffusion of the Brahmimc formation and Sanskritic vocables into 

 India, and they thus help to strengthen the other reasons for suppos- 

 ing that the grammars also were akin to the Dravirian and Scythic 

 ^before they were modified by (be Arian. The next great revolu- 

 tion in Asonesian ethnology after the Papuan, serTes also to 

 illustrate the history of the Dmvirian in the era which immediate- 

 ly preceded that of Umhtnitac predominance, and was probably 



