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additional notes. 
P. 199, last line of text: “A distinction of dialect ."'} — 
According to the classification of the Sclaves by Schlaezer, pre- 
served in theNotes to Storck’s Tableau de laRussie, tom. I. p. 15, 
that people admit of a seven-fold division ; they were either 
Russians, Poles, Bohemians, Fendians, Illyrians, Hungarians, 
or Turks. Perhaps I may some day be permitted to discuss 
the interesting subject of the origin of these and other nations, 
where its introduction will be less extraneous. The three great 
progenitors, the Tahtar, the Arab, and the Goth', have trans- 
mitted to their progeny the clearest and most decisive marks 
of the sources whence they were derived. It is singular, that, 
from their opposite and devious track, the descendants of 
those families have all found their way to Europe. The Getce, 
established by right of long possession, were found concen- 
tered as a nucleus, when the Sclavi and the Moors, by the 
most remote and unconnected operations, possessed themselves 
of the borders. 
P. 339, 1. 22. “ It bore then, as it does now, the name of 
Danaetz.”j] — Observations of a similar nature may have been 
suggested to the compilers of the account of Muscovy, 
published in Holland, at the Elzevir Press, in 1G30; as ap- 
pears by the following passage : “ Est et alter Tana'is Minor, 
r/ui in Siberiensi Ducatu oriens (unde Dunecz Severski vocatur ) 
supra Axoph in Tanaim Magnum descend'd.” Descript. Mus- 
covite, p. 8. L.Bat. ex Off - . Elzev. 1630. 
P. 348, 1. 21 . “ The name Axay is a Tahtar word."} — The 
initial of this word is properly a diphthong, common in Sweden, 
(1) By Goths , I would not be understood to mean the Barbarians 
who invaded the Roman Empire from the East; but the more antient 
descendants of the GeUe, who, crossing the Dardanelles , peopled Thrace , 
and were the origin, not only of the Teutonic tribes, but of the Greeks : 
“ In paueis remanent Graim vestigia lingua; ; 
Ilacc quoque jam Gelico barbara facta sono.” 
Ovid. Trist . lib, v* El eg. VII. 
