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Magyar or Hungarian, the TscliOiid or 
Finlandish belongs to Europe^ 
We must admit, that the comparison be- 
tween the idioms of the two continents has 
hitherto led to no important conclusion ; 
but we may cherish the hope, that this 
study will become more productive, when a 
great number of materials shall be founds 
to exercise the sagacity of the learned. 
How many languages exist in America, 
and in central and eastern Asia, the me- 
chanism of which is to us as much unknown 
as that of the Tyrhenian, the Oscan, and 
the Sabine! Among the nations who have 
disappeared in the Old World, there are 
perhaps several, of which a few scanty 
tribes are preserved in the vast solitudes of 
America. 
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If languages supply but feeble evidence 
of ancient comraunrcation between the 
two worlds, this communication is fully 
proved by the cosmogonies, the monu- 
ments, the hieroglyphics, and institutions 
