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ADDITIONALNOTFS.west"""ard by the early progeny of Ham. Denon has ptoved theul1ifornJity of languagethroughont it, From ",:est to east. Another step, it~ primiiiveness, and allis proved;this last lS hot dif11eult. I~aÎ1guage, like population, entered l:;!.t .the .Cataracts, andproeeedeû by the skirts of the mountains. South"V'ard, it extended inundulâtions,and proves how population made its progress there. Language. identifies by latitudesaer~ss this whole continent. Of the Breber ot mountain language, thât of theshépherd'srace, eight \Vords identify with Siwah in a parallel of !aS. (Siwah, Al1lUlOn'stemple, is two hundredmiles west, one point south of Cairo). Who can deny thata primitive language, whieh contains sueh words as, bahr azrai, and albiad, "blueand white sea, or water?" The latitude of 15 north is amost importanttract of Afriea.The Tuorick is a primiti~e people, and of the first historieal intetest. Theyave bothstabile and nomade, and are connected in language withtheBrebers; so that tbis,that, and Showiah, identify like Greek, Latin, andTentonie.-Afew words as tothe population of this continent, and itsnow different races :-They are ehietly definedinto Malay onthe east, Negro on the west, Hottentot on the south, and Boschman inthe interior. This diminutive race last mentioned is found in general in the interiorof countries and islands through the low latitudes,andisworthy ofinvestigation. Asto physical relations: The ancient statt1es ofEgypthavè the Negro, and of India theAbyssinian eountenance. In regard tolanguage: Caieta, the name by which thosemountains at the heads of the Niger and Senegalrivers are design~ted, speaks è~ugh.In topography, a variety of local denominations exist, wh,ich ought to be sCfutinized.Atlas is a derivative from its snowy summits: thus Gibel Atlits, "snowy cliffs." The,geographical knowledge of the ancients, eouched as it was in mystery, was verygteat.They personified every thing. See the heads Atlas, Atlantes, Atllantitles, ..... how muchthis object made up of thei1' crypto-moraI thëology. GCr, me western point, ls a boldpromontory; its tenn i3 of primitive fOot. Four-flfths of the fabulous poetizing of theancÏents is nauticaI. Gaur, a mountain tremendous to marinera. On the southhereof is Santa Cruz. 'This placé's name 1l;ith fhe indigenous ls ...