at present than a brief reference. That white races inhabit
the cold north send black tribes the south is an obvious
fact, but it would not be conclusive as to the original causes
of the phenomena of complexions unless there were some
historical proof that deviations have taken place within
particular families. But for instances of this kind, established
with as complete evidence as we can expect to find
in support of any historical or ethnographical fact, we may
refer to the physical history of the Hindoos and the offsets
of the Indian race in the Himalaya, and likewise' to the
^history of the Shemite or Syro-Arabian tribes.
It appears that races bearing that type of organisation
which belongs more especially to the nomades Turan
have, in conjunction with their other characters, a texture
of skin which does not so readily assume a variety of shades
or yield to the influence of climate as does that of Europeans
and the Asiatics of the Arian race. Yet the-xanthous
colour displays itself in the Turanian tribes, as we have «seen ^
in tracing the physical history of the eastern Asiatics. It
may be supposed that generally the complexion remains
nearly permanent until the tribe has been exposed to the;
influence of particular physical agencies, and those agents
which modify the complexion of the stock produce their
effect also in the first instance on the configuration and
structure of parts.
A P P E N D I X .
1.—OF THE GIPSEYS1 AN&> MOTHER MIGRATORY TRIBES.
The Ethnography of Europe and Asia would be incomplete
without some allusipnpto wandering, yaces who,have
no particular country and whoso- original abode can only
be discovered by the analogy pf-their languages, they are
principally Indian-tribeS^f low caste. <
The Bazeegurs, or Nuts ardpahtribe of this description, of
whom an account may be «seen,/ , by Captain D. Richardson,
in' the seventh volume of the “Asiatic Researches.” They
are a numerous and widely-spread people, divided into
seven castes. The writer has shewn,-by a comparative
vocabulary of their dialect and that of the- Gipseys with
the Hindustani, that a considerable; resemblance exists
between all these languages; and he Conjectures that the
people termed in England • Gipseys descended originally
from a branch of the Bazeegurs.
Several other wandering tribes, spread through different
parts of India, have been described in a . late memoir, by
E. Balfour, Esq., assistant surgeon, published in the thirty-
fifth volume of the “ Edinburgh and New Philosophical
Journal.” They are as follows:—
1. The Gohar, called, by Europeans and natives of India,
Lingari or Lumbari.
2. Hind-Shikarry or Hind-Pardy, the Hunters.
3. The Taremook or Wandering Blacksmiths.
4. The Korawa.
5. The Teling Korawa of Korowa or Telingana.
6. The Bhatoo.
_ 7. The Maddikpor.
The Gipseys have, doubtless, descended from some mi