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with k. But we have in Basque the word bcatz, a finger ; and beatz is nearer 
to mack than bat. I spent several months in trying to connect Etruscan with 
Basque ; but I found the Finn was very much nearer than the Basque. 
Lord Talbot de Malahide. — No doubt the Finnic nations spread over 
a great portion of Europe before the Celts and the rest of the Germanic 
nations ; and if there is any relationship between the Basques and the Etrus- 
cans, it would be a most important fact to be made acquainted with. I 
suppose nothing has been known of the Ligurian language ? 
Mr. Taylor. — About half a dozen words, and two of them are decidedly 
Basque. 
Lord Talbot de Malahide. — How about the Oscan I 
Mr. Taylor. — That is closely akin to Latin. 
Lord Talbot de Malahide. — Those inscriptions at Pompeii can be read 1 
Mr. Taylor.— Yes. 
Lord Talbot de Malahide. — There is a suggestion which I should like 
to make with reference to these cubes. Are they loaded, or are they made 
to be loaded ? 
Mr. Taylor. — I do not know whether they have been played with, but 
they are very large, very heavy, and of pure ivory. 
Lord Talbot de Malahide. — If they had been loaded, or intended to be 
loaded, that would have been a criterion by which you could have ascertained 
where the highest number was . 
Mr. Taylor. — I did not notice. I had them in my hand nearly an hour, 
but I did not observe whether there was any loading in them or not. 
Lord Talbot de Malahide. — With reference to the mortuary inscriptions, 
have you satisfied yourself that they merely express the years of the age of 
the deceased persons, because in the Roman inscriptions the months and days 
are generally given as well. 
Mr. Taylor. — I pointed out one that I thought might contain the days or 
weeks. 
Mr. F. A. Allen. — This is a very interesting discovery, because it appears 
that all the civilized countries of antiquity were really Turanian in origin. It 
appears, through the medium of our discoveries, as if civilization had been 
handed down by the races which we now call Turanian. It has been ob- 
served by writers that the Etrurian year agrees, within eight or ten minutes, 
with that of the Aztecs in America ; and there are several other points of 
identity which are curious, and which are shown by Mr. Hyde Clarke’s dis- 
coveries in reference to the antiquities and inscriptions in America, and also 
Accadian inscriptions. If the Etruscan is shown to be Accadian, we establish a 
bond of union between the Old World and the New. Mr. O’Brien, the learned 
editor of a work called Phoenician Ireland, was once “ twitted ” by some one 
who said, “ You might as well say the Phoenicians got to America.” To which 
he replied, “Well, ‘Algonquin’ means in Phoenician ‘ noble people,’ or ‘ noble 
race,’ — a title which has very often been arrogated bydribes both savage and 
civilized.” These things are valuable, as pointing to the unity of mankind, 
