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complexion, form, stature, and other physical qualities which exist m^ 
them are the results of deviation from an original type. 
2. I have termed the second great family of European and Asiatic natioB 
Ugro-Tartarian, for reasons which are explained in a note*. The racesof 
people to be comprised under this epithet were in early times spread ovcrti 
most remote regions of the great continent, where they are known in nwiy 
parts to have preceded the Indo-European nations, so tliat thev ap^r.i' 
comparison with the latter, in the light of aborigines, or native inhabits 
vanquished and often driven into mountainous and inaccessible . 
more powerful invading tribes. They inhabit chiefly extreme parts tot 
westward, northward, and etistward of the Indo-European natJODs. 
ethnology of these races is involved in great obscority ; the sources o s- 
formation respecting it arc ditficull of access, and have been «npe ^ 
explored. An attentive research has, however, detected traces ofcoanei' 
between tribe* included iu this department who must have been from 
morial times separated from eaclt other by great distances ™ . 
these tnices are in some instances »o definite as to Iwivc no doubt ^ 
owe their existence to original affinity. Flmmoniena which render t w o 
elusion more or less probable have been recognised among mo*t o 
tribes, who arc scattered, beyond the Indo.Europcan population, Irmo 
north and perhaps from the west of Europe to the north-eastern 
Siberia. The latigtmges of many of these nations have been as ye 
imperIVctly studied, and some are only known by the comparison o 
buiarics; Imt in other instances their grammatical structure has been , 
elucidated. Kudiger, Dobrowsky and Ilask, were the writers wio [ 
nionced this undertaking with an ethnological view. They have been p 
mature in some of their generalizations, but many of their conjectures 
been confiririod. 
The following are some of the chai*acteristics of these language.-, ss 
their grammatical structure is concenied:— 
* The name wWcli Ilmvfi (Uloptcd aa a general epilliet for this family of 
Tartanau, is conipaumled from the proper aeaignatious of the two prinpi^l 
stem, the Ugrian am! the Tartarian. U is formed ou die same priaciple as > . 
the term which I have given to the iiiipropcrlr-tiainwl Semitic natiqua—nnprop 
a great ]K>rtiun them were desecudants of Ham. Tlie name of Ugrian is 
anment uainw of the race, to which belong tbel^nns, Lapps, Huogaruwwd m«y 
nations, and it has been sanctioned as a general appellation of the slock by 
the most Icanjcd wriler* iin their history. (See MiilJer’s'UgriscUe Volistarara-J .. 
of Tartar, as applied to the nations of Iligli Asia, after haring been repuiliated 
of the last age. Inu been fuUy auUiorizcd bv the example of the two greaiw* phaolip* 
"“'i? °“.**‘**c languages, I mean .M. Abnl Reronsat and I’fofcs.wr Schott. 
M.Kcugren, m his late exeeUcut essay on the languages which I 
Tartarian, names them the L'fia.iVllai.rii fntnilv. He apparently comsidcrs the t 
as the hinhplace of one division and the Altai of the other. In tb‘s h® • 
though with u more correct knowledge of the relations of lliescraccs 
not adopted hU tcrmijiulogy, because I cannot conceive what is meant by »;■ 
mquntam chains as the cradles nr birthplaces of nations- KUproth connected ti^^,; 
a fancifnl notion Hat various nations itad escaiitd the Noachic deluge on tw 
mountains. Most persons will arlmit ilat natiota must liavcbeen formed, (a 
in which nations ever were formed, vix. by the aggregation of individuals or t» » 
rather in fertile valleys or on plSns abounding with rte 
auDsistence. than uu inaccessible roountain.tops. The Ugriait and Tartarian 
i i.^f byridca so akin to each oth er (a* uobodv has shown so fnUy ^ • ' ijits < 
til/. '»hieli they were originally durelaped must be supposed 
It;« ^ P””uinity with each other, or rather to have been at first 
Oi, 1 one brancli originating from Alta: and the oth^ vo 
Svrn Ai-ai f prefer the term Ugro-Tartarian, corresponding with Indo- 
• laii, Indo-Chinese, and other analogous names. 
