Page.
S ection 2. Of the Thracian race 1 . . . , , . '. .......... .. i . . . . 465
S ection. 3. Of the Illyrian race . . ü v *» . . ........ .... 469
S ection. 4,. The Epiratic nations ........ ■**.. ...............472
S ection 6. Further inquiries into the history o f the Thracian
and Illyrian races. Of the nations who are
. supposed to be descended from them, namely,
, the .Wallachs and the Albanians or Skipe-
tares:
Paragraph L Observations on the history
of the Thracian language-................ ...473
Paragraph 2* Of the Wallachs . . . . . __476
Paragraph '3. Of the Albanians or Skipetarians
. . . . , ............................ 477
S ection 6. Of the Hellenic race. :
Paragraph 1. Of the country and people
. .of Greece.. . . . . . . . . r . .'.. ^ . 482
Paragraph 2, Of the aborigines df Greece, '
and of foreign colonies ' . ................... .. wr484
Paragraph 3; Of the Pelasgi and other
aboriginal tribes... i . . . . . . . . . 486
Paragraph 4. Transition to the Hellene * ^
name . . . . . . . . . . . 1 , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v 491
Paragraph 5. Of the Greek language, and
of the language of the Pelasgi .. . . . .'.. 492
Section 7. Of the-nations of Lesser Asia . . . .77' . . . . . . . . 497
Concludihg remarks ................. ......- 503
S ection 8. Of the physical characters of the nations described
in the preceding sections \o$ this
chapter:
Paragraph 1. Of the Wallachs . . . . . . . . . 503
Paragraph 2. Of the Albanians.. . . . . . . 594
Paragraph 3. Of the Greeks . . . . . . . . 505
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES.
P late 1. (Frontispiece)—A portrait of Ramohun Roy, affording
an example of very dark complexion in a Brahman of undoubtedly
pure race : a specimen of colour approaching to black in a tribe of
the Indo-European stock.
P late % : Figs. 1, 2 , represent skuflsof-Me two principal varieties
of ijie Iofun o / Great Finnish race. Fig. 1, is a Lappoaic skull
from Blumenbach’s decades.' Fig.-2, is the skull of an Esthonian
Fiiin, from the work of Dr. Alexander Hueck, published at Dorpat
in"l838. ,
? ;j fThese ekuHs are described and their differences pointed out in a
section of this volume, relating to the physical characters of the
Finnish nations. :
• P late 3.—Contains a drawing taken from the cast of a skull
in the Museum of the Royal College o£{ Surgeons. The cast was
presented to« the College by Professor Eschrich&of Copenhagen,
together with a learned and interestmg memoir on the sepulchral
remains of ancient races in Denmark and ,the neighbouring countries,
published in the $ Danske Folkeblad.” t The east is that of a
cranium discovered in a barrow in the isle of Moen, which appears
from Professor Eschricht’s account to he a good specimen of a
great number of skulls found '• in similar situations. The memoir
which accompanied it gives much curious information on
the subject of the sepulchral remains dispersed over the north of
Europe. The comparison of these remains with; the numerous
relics of a like description spread through thé British isles, and with
the contents of innumerable tumuli existing' in the north of Russia,
and particularly along the banks of Me great rivers of Siberia, may
hereafter throw an important light on the ancient history and
ethnography of all these regions. Professor Eschncht s memoir
wffim