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and tliflt flie iiicren.-*ing liirbt thrown on the eompamtive characters of 

 eMcli faiaily of Ijiufriuiiie, during the revisiuu of the section rebtinp- to it, 

 ha,H di.-^t'Io.-ieti di'fects in the preceding o\wa. The coiitinnitj of jmblicft- 

 tiun iuiil eqmilitv of trPuUin^nt, «n^infilly intended, havehf^ii iireveiifefl by 

 fi>^([iientuntl, tU times, prolunjied lireaks in the iittfiitian I h:ivf }>pc?n tilile 

 to ;jiveto line subject, luul, in fume deijree, by iibr*»'iice from tlu' place of 

 pHntin;r- Thf waMislem y w hi< h tbe work iiaii wlieii tirsl rapidly wiittan, 

 a ."*tatenn*nt of fhe rij/mions t«i which i lund bncn led bv a review of th« 

 otluT iipiiiui^tic groups wiih reference to the Owanin, has bwu lost by 

 tbelaftse uf years, durinj^ which eThnulo^ty ha* not stuod ^till, wliile I 

 hu^ e benii eiuit-avourtiig' to bring the*e oniiiions to the tf^st of a inure 

 iw^arehing enquiry into tke peculiaritiod of tlie different £rToti)ts. A final 

 revifti<ni, on thti coitiitletinn of rlie work, can alone re>tiif B it.^ nnifonnitj, 

 by brini^iiy all it-^ t'licts and inference^ into harmony wifh the knowledg-e 

 oi" the time at wliich it publication ra.iy he concluded. It neemi^ neee-ridary^ 

 ho\vever, on the sfiisirate issue of tlie present portion, nearly two yeai-a 

 afier earlier ^.i^f^s apjteared, to warn the reader that some of it,s jfbs- 

 Siirial dtituilH are at variance with the more iiccm-ate ac^|uaiiit.ance with th« 

 Himalaio and Dravirian rootd which 1 have obtjvjtjed from the miiiat« 

 cojnpari:4m* in chap. vi. Thes^e errors will be best underntood by n re- 

 fi'i eitce to that chii[«tei', and especially to the comparative table of Dravirian 

 and llimalaic rwifs which will bf* fouml in it. Some of the mostiuipor- 

 taut will be here noted, in addition to errors of the pre.-w and of liaAte. 



" In flome Ttlitce^i I have uiaed the word fltmalaic in a larw'e sense, and ns 

 the paraf^rajm exjilauiUory of it was omitted in the proper place, it la 

 neceivoiry to mimfiufi here that, for want of a better term, I havr: applied 

 it Jo that larire uroup t»f connate laii<ruaire!* and tribes which have itnme- 

 morially (Hu-^tered in and around the Himalaya and the nmf>-eASuhnrdn»at« 

 to it, and the preservation of the native chtiracter of which must ba 

 chiefly amrrilieil to the protection afforded by these uirf int-ains ajjnitnat 

 the more powerful and civilised races of E i-stern Asia, — ('niiiese, Seythic, 

 Dniviriaii and Arian. An est met from a letter to Mr. llodjirsoii (July 15 

 JSAii) will illnstratn the ap[)lic;ition of the name. That my Mon-Aiinnd 

 group WiiA the IJi'rtf/ttti of the pre-Tib'^tun em (urtinir Til>et!in for the 

 present fcM;ytltoid bram-h) and conterminous with the Vindyaii Dravirian 

 dialects ia demon st rated ; but I am not ftrepared to admit that Ilraviriim 

 haa not a distinct archai - inii-rpdient, not derived either from the Mnu- 

 AmuM or the Tibetu-Hnrmaii braueh of what I have termed " Himalatc" 

 tiil you can .supnly ns with a more a[»}>ropriate tinnie. I conceive the 

 Dravi'O-AiisH'aiiian brunch of Scythic or rather of (Jhiiio-8cyt.hic, to 

 h*^ of rast antiquity, and to have lonir preceded tlie descent of the Cliino- 

 Tibet^m race Irom their tnuiE^-Iliniahiyan abodcj<. Ir.H ntronr iJcytho- 

 Caucustan element appenra to rae to show that tt cauio round 

 the western exlemity of the great dividni£r barrier between middle 

 Hwi southern A-.ia. The Mon-Anam or J'Ju t llimaliiie stem wa.-* more 

 Chiufst; jiud less Stntlnc th;ui the later )f>.4 Ilinxidaie or Tibero- 

 BmiMan. All the e.irlicr di^jptirsed lan^uagea— that is, their mixed 

 «Liid .sonieiimes hybrid deicendants— havt; a core of primary roota, 

 rctniiun;^' a ciose reseuiblince to each other, ai>d to tliode. of tire vo- 

 calinlarie-s that have retmiinedin and near the primary iibotle of the Mid- 

 Asiatic tribes. In thk way 1 would explain (he jiecntiar tJliinede wleujent 

 ♦f iiijjiulaic, Caucusiyai ( preserved by the mouutiuuus ), and i>rj,vinHAut- 



