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PKISTTKÖ’B Y : JO SK P H R IC K R B B Y
SH B B BO U RN C Ï n B.
BOOK IV.
R E S E A R C H E S IN T O T H E E T H N O G R A P H Y
OF E U R O P E AND ASIA.
PREFACE.
I n laying before the public that portion o f ray work
which comprises the ethnography of Europe and
Asia, by far the most important regions of the world
in respect to the origin of nations and the history
ofi: mankind, I feel a strong impression that some
apology is due from roe for the imperfect manner in
which I have executed the task. I am ready to hope
that a sufficient excuse will be found in the difficulties
connected with the undertaking, and that these difficulties
are so obyious in their nature f as to render it
needless to do more than briefly to mention them. In
the first place I may advert to the great extent of the
field which I have been called upon to survey, and to
the great number of questions that came before me successively,
while examining the relations of the numerous
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