_d._ In Slavonia, Servians and Russians--a variety of the Servian section. _e._ The Banat has already been noticed. So has-- _f._ Transylvania. The non-Majiar populations of all these districts are separated from the Majiars by the outward and visible signs of difference of language; and their ethnology is, consequently, widely different from that of the Jaszag and Kunszag. Of these, though the former is Slavonic and the latter Turk, in blood, each is Majiar in language. Different, however, from all are the Seklers. _Their_ peculiarity is, that they were Majiars before the great Majiar invasion of the tenth century; Ugrians, probably, in the army of Attila, as they easily might have been, and as their own belief makes them, whilst a passage in Alfred mentions the _Syssele east of the land of the Vends_. The word means _settler_ in Majiar, and it is only by supposing an early Majiar invasion that its presence in the pages of Alfred can be explained. It is in language that the Majiar is distinct from the rest of Europe. In blood there is but little difference. That a Majiar female ever made her way from the Ural Mountains to Hungary is more than I can find; the presumptions being against it. Hence, it is just possible that a whole-blooded Majiar was never born on the banks of the Danube. Whether the other elements are most Turk or most Slavonic is more than I venture to guess. * * * * * Why do I give a Sarmatian origin to the ancient populations of the Lower and Middle Danube? The details are too lengthy for exhibition; a sketch only can be given. Special testimony places the Thracians, the Getæ, the Daci, and the Triballi in the same class. The reasons in favour of the _recent_ origin of the present Servians, Croatians, Carinthians, Slovaks, and Tshekhs, is inconclusive. The Jazyges of the Euxine were in the same category with the Jazyges of the Theiss, _i.e._ Slavonic. From these the intermediate populations cannot be separated. But why carry the Slavonic area further west? In the Tyrol we have such geographical names as Scharn-_itz_, Gsh_nitz_-thal, and _Vintsh_-gau; in the Vorarlberg, Ked-_nitz_ and Windisch-_matrei_. Even where the names are less definitely Slavonic, the compound sibilant _tsh_, so predominant in Slavonic, so exceptional in German, is of frequent occurrence. This, perhaps, is little, yet is more than can be found in any country known to have been _non_-Slavonic. Besides which, there are no presumptions against the doctrine. Again--a Slavonic population in the Vorarlberg and Southern Bavaria best accounts for the name _Vind_-elicia. * * * * * Malta, Crete, and several of the Greek Islands, are European in respect to their politics only. Ethnologically, they are African and Asiatic. In Malta the language of the common people is Arabic, and the blood is probably Arabic also--the superadded elements being numerous.