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Show 94 STEPPES AND DESERTS. My statements respecting the mean height of the Snow-line in the Himalaya. (Asie Centrale, tom. iii . p. 326.) Paris feet. Eng. feet. Northern declivity 15,600 .. 16,626 Southern " 12,180 .. 12,981 Difference 3,420 3,645 Paris feet. Eng. feet. Nortl•ern declivity 18,764 .. 20,000 Somhern " 14,073 . . 15,000 Diffe-rence 4,691 5,000 The local differences vary still more, as may be seen from the list of extremes given in my Asie Centrale, t. iii. p. 295. Alexander Gerard saw the snow limit ascend, on the Thibetian declivity of the Himalaya, to 19,200 Parisian feet (20,465 English); and on the southern Indian declivity, Jacquemont once saw it, north of Cursali on the Jumnotri, even as low as 10,800 Parisian (11,510 English) feet. ( 11) p. 28.-" A b1·own Pa_stoml Race, the .IIt"ongnu." The Hiongnu (Hiong-nou), who Deguignes, and with him many historians, long considered to be the Huns, inhabited that vast region of Tartary which is bounded on the east by Uo-leang-ho (the present Mantschu dominion), on the south by the Chinese wall, on the west by the U-siiin territory, and on the north by the country of the Eleuthes. But the Hiongnu belong to the Turkish, and the Huns to the Finnish or Uralian race. The 1w1·them Huns, a rude pastoral people, unacquainted with agriculture, were dark brown (sunburnt); the southern Huns or Hajatelah (called by the Byzantines Euthalites or Nepthalites, and dwelling along the eastern shore of the Caspian), had a fairer complexion. The latter cultivated the ground, and possessed towns. They arc often called the white, or fair Huns, and d'Herbelot even declares them to be Indo-Scythians. On Punu, the Leader or Tanju of the Huns, and on the great drought and famine which about 46 A. D. caused a part of the nation to migrate northwards (see Deguignes, Histoire gen. des Huns, des Turcs, &c., 1756, t. i. pt. i. p. 217; pt. ii. pp. 111, 125, 223, 44 7). All the accounts of tbc Huns taken from the above-mentioned celebrated work, have been subjected to a learned and strict examination by Klaproth. According to the result of this research, the Hiongnu belong to the widely diffused Turkish races of the Altai and Tangnu Mountains. The name Hiongnu, even in the third |