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dry branches, whose terminations and particles are dead, 
since we no longer are acquainted with their meaning.”* 
And carrying on the same simile of the tree, European 
languages are like so many grafts upon one stem, that it is 
almost impossible to recognize the parent stock, so much 
are they intermingled with other tongues ; whilst these 
languages are the simple ungrafted trees which stand forth 
in all their primitive distinctiveness, rendering them con- 
spicuous amongst all the surrounding ones. 
* An Extract from Paper of M. a de Quatrefages, in the February Number 
of the ‘ ‘ Revue de deux mo tides, ” Paris, 1864. 
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