It is remarkable that the expressions of this passage—“And it came to pass, as they journeyed from _the East_, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there”—harmonise in the most perfect manner not only with the Indian remains, but also with the passages first referred to from the Scriptural narrative itself with respect to the first abode of the human race, for it will be seen by the map that 1, Cashmire lies in _a direct line_ to “the East” of Shinar or Mesopotamia! 2, The whole intervening territory is occupied by the Central-Asiatic table-land of Persia or Iran, which, as previously noticed, forms one _continual descent_ from its highest elevation on the borders of Cashmire to its termination near the plain of Shinar! Ar-ar-at may reasonably be inferred to be nothing else than a term commonly applied in the East to “a country of lofty mountains,” (see p. 83,) an expression highly appropriate to the Persian table-land both at its centre, and at its junction with the Semetic regions, near the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates! (See Ritter.) 4. Physiognomy. As before observed, in these regions are found in juxtaposition nations which exhibit the very opposite Physiological characteristics of the Mongol and Western Asiatic races. The people of Tibet display the former, those of Cashmire the latter. 5. Philology. Here the Monosyllabic and Polysyllabic languages branch off from a common centre. The former begin in Tibet, the latter in Cashmire. The Monosyllabic languages which prevail in Tibet, China, Ava, Pegu, Siam, Tonquin, and Cochin China, countries which contain a population of 180 millions, betray all the rudeness of human speech in its infancy. They have no compound words and no grammar. “The same sound,” says Adelung, “which means _Joy_, means also _Joyful_ and _To rejoice_ through all persons, numbers, and tenses!” ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ “They form their plural like a child, either by repetition, as ‘_Tree-tree_’ (i.e. ‘Trees’), or by means of an additional word, as ‘_Tree-many! Tree-other!_’ When the great grown-up child is heard stammering ‘_Be Heaven, I Other,_(13) _Father which_,’ who but another child like him can guess that this means ‘_Our Father which art in Heaven!_’ ”