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Show F. X P LA N A 'I' T 0 N S 0 F T liE 'l' ABLE AU. No. 8. - St. LAURENT-ISLANDER. IC'IIOin~, np. cit., llv. 7•., Pl. xvl.; from llobrlng'• Straits, Amorloon •Ide.) VoN LANOSDOIU'b' (Voy. and 'l'ravela, London, 4to. 1813, IT, pp. 81, 111-12) Doctor to Kotzebue, ~nys of tho Oonnlnskuns, "n sot·t of middle rnoc botwoon tho 1\lougol-'l'nrtnt·s oud tho North Amcricnns "-and of tho !Coluschians, "they do not nppertr to hnvo the least rdlinity with tho Mongolraoo :"-skin, when clc£1n, ne£1rly fair. No. 9.- TARTAR. [" Chof Tnrtnro :"-D~ Knus£NBTF.nN, op. cit., 1'1. xvll. ;-oorroctod by Ru ~slnn orlglnnl, Tub. lxxxll.] Colored by dCAcriptious of the £1nciont "Ou-Sioun," "~'ing-J,iu gR, " &o., nccording to Cbinoso historians cited by KLAPROTU (Tableaux Mal. de t'Aaic, pp. 123-5, 162, &o.) Compl1l'e D1~SMOULINS, op. cit., pp. 74-5, 80, 87, 163 ;-and othor £1nthoritios in JATJ.OOT (Revolutions du Peuplea de l'.Aeie .Afoymne, Pnris, 1830; ii.), "1'11b- 1 uu synoptiqne, chronologiquo ot po.r R£1oo." Dtl Kitust:NS'I'tlltN (trnnsl. Eyries, 1821, ii. pp. 208-11, 222-6), nt tho peninsnl11 of Snkh~tlin (M11p, Pl. 28), const of 1'artnry-no.tTntes how the 'f£1rtnrs, of whom tho above is o. chief, had driven out and extirpr~tocl the "nboriginos, Ot' Alnos," and woro 11 totally distinct rnoo. For T111'tnr ethnogmphy around the Bln.ck Son, consult TloMMAillll DE ThLL (Lea Sr zppea de La mer Caapienne, Paris, 8 vola., 1846)paasim. No. 10.- CHINESE. ['' Uu C1Jinols"-11Ann.o1v, Voyage en Olline (with Maonrtno,v), trnnel. <JMtora, l'nrls, 1805; AtlfUJ, 4to., ~1. lv.; nnd I, pp. 77-82.) 'l'horo fJ.J'e ronny forms of Chinnmcn, on which I havo no spnce to onlo.rge; but this is !I good normt1l typo. No. 11. -KALMUK. [Dcrlvntloo unoortnln.) Colored fr·om IIAMJLTON SMITH, Nat. !Jist. of tlte Iluman Species, Edinbm·gh, 1848; "Swnrthy Knhnncks, Elonth," Pl. 28, p. 462. Compare MARTIN, op. cit., pp. 271-8, fig. 207 :-Cuvnm, Atl11s, ]lfammif~roa. '£ho best descriptions nrc in n work by an anonymous bnt vory correct compilot• (Voyages chez le Pcuplea Kalmoucks et tea 'l'llrtares, avec 28 figures ot 2 cnrtos g6ogn1phiqucR, Borne, 1702, 8vo.,- p. 160 in JHnticuln.r). A !'tor indiCf1ling tho olenr distin.ctions, in types £1nd tongueR, botwcon tho vnrious mcca of JISpinn Asi!l, he quotes LA M01't\AY»'a surprise," d'nvoir trouv6, presque soos le mumo elim£1t, ot dans lo m(lmo £1ir, lea Circaasims, lo plus be1\u p uplo dn monde, nu milieu dos Noghaiens ot dos Kalmoucka, qui sont do vrnis moustros do l11idour." No.l2.-TUDA. ["A mnn of t.bo 1'uan rnoo ;" Nllnglrl TTI11•,- Muscum Royal Aslntlo Society: l'nJOnAnD, Resca.·che4 into the l'f•yrical Ifistm·y of Afanl,ind: -nml Nat. Ilist. of Nan, 1866, Pl. xl. p. 853-4.) On nil these Drnvidinn tribes, see Maury's Chnp. I., pp. liZ-0; and my Chnptor V., pp. 012-13. Tho boat descriptions nro in Sketch of ABBam (suprn, note 846 liB); but tho colored portraits are too small. EX PLAN AT I 0 N S 0 F T 11 E 'I' A B LEA U. 623 III. EUROPEAN REALM. (Nos.13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,- 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.) . ~'he profound author of" Civil Liberty and Self Oovornlllont "-nblost expouent of hurnnn r1ght~ ns und r~tood in our XlXth contut·y by Anglo-Snxou~-has oxpreMsod tho cmbiu·rnssmcnt~ of nomonclatut·o in tho followiug nolo:- . " I •<sk permission to dro.w the nttention of tJ,o scholnr to n suhj ect which apponrs to mo tmpo1·tnnt. I hnvo used tho torrn Wostem IliHtO J'Y, yet it is ~o indistinct thnt I must oxplltin whn.t is moo.nt by it. Tt ought not to be eo. I menu by western hi story, tho hi story of n.ll hi toricnlly activo, non-Asiatic nntions nud tribes- tho hi story of tho :Europcnus o.nd lh oit· dosceudants in otiJor pnrts of tho world. lu tho groupiug nnd division of comprohcnsivo subjects, clenrnoss depends ia t\ great menHuro upon tl1o di stiuctnoss of well-choRon terms. Mnny students of civilizntion l1nvo pl'Obnbly felt with mo tl1o dcsirnbleness of neonciao te1·m, which should comprohoud within tho bounds of ono word, cnpnblo of ful'llisldng tiS with an nccoptn.blo ndjectivo, tho whole of tho wostcl'll Cnucnsi~tn portion of mn.nkindtho J•;uropcnus nnu nil their dcscondnnts in wh£1tovor p£1rt of the world, in Arncri cn, Auslmli n, Af1·icn, India, tho Indian Arohipolngo nnd tho Pacific TMI>uJd s. It is £In idon whi ch con~ tnntly recurR, nnd m ~tkos tho necessity of n proper nnd brief tot·m dnily ft•lt. Bacon Hrdd thnt "tho wise question is bo.l!' tho science," ~tncl rnny we not add that n wise diviHion one! npt terminology is its c01nplction? In my privl\to papers I usc tho term Occidcnttd, in a sufTiciently m1tuml contmdi~tinetion to Oricntnl. llul Ocei lontnl, like WestcJ·n, indicntoa gcogn1phi ct\l position; nor did I fool otherwise £1uthori1.od to uso it hero. l~uropitl s, would not bo rondily nccoptocl oithor. Jnphothi£1n would comprehend mot·e tribes Limn wo wish to closignnto. ~'hnt somo torm or oU1er must soon bo nrloptod seems to mo elonr, nnd [ am rondy to accept nny expressive name formed in tho spi l'it nnd according to tho tnsto of onl' I Ji n gu~tgo . 'l'ho chemist 1111d naturnl bistorinn nrc not tho ouly ones tlmt slo.Jid in ncoct of <li~tinct nnmcs for their subjects, but they arc less oxo.otiug tlll\n scltolnrs."- Op. cit., Philnd elphia, 8vo., 1853, i. pp. 80-1. Soon nfter tho issue of" l'ypcs of M£1nkind," n plons£1nt r·oncontre hero with Prof. Frnneis Li eber led to convor~ntion between UH, wherein it wns t•omn.rked, thnt tl1e nnmo of n mythic d(lufJhler of 11n nnte-hi storic king of Phocnioin (Agonor),-trnnRportod by .Jupiter in tho form of a nntlltory rnilk-whito bull to tho Tslo of Cnndia-whic!J, ns Eun.OPA, lmd not yet become npplied geogmphienlly to "Europe" in the tim s of Hornor, ~bould )111VC given birth lo Ill! n<ljectivo-" Elll'oponn "-tl1nt (like Cuucasimt, 1'uranian, &c., suprn , note 400) now closign11tes, ns if they were nn ethnic tmit, types of mnn hiRtoricnlly originnting in three distinct lletlims (A !'Otic, Asintic, nnd F.nropenn properly so·onlled), and rnees £IS osso ntinlly diverse from on.ch other ns tho Fnunoo of those Renhns themselves: nt tho snmo limo lhnt, as Bochnrt (Piwleg, IV. 88) long ago perceived, sucl1 11ntions difl'or ontiroly ft·om tho men of~> fourth Renlm-" qui£1 EuropaHI Africnnos cnndoro f1wioi nJultum snpernut." p,·of'. J,icbor wns so good ns to leave with me (13th July, 1854) n momoratH.Ium embodying tho result of om· conference:- " P. S. I mny ndd th£1t I hnvo thought of tho following names, all of which seem poor tomo- Jnphrtiall., (includes too much); D!!si-Caucasiana (bnd); Jfupero-Caucasirma (poor); Bm·opa-Caucasiana (poorer). |