The Ostiaks occupy part of the government of Perm, the part that lies beyond the Uralian range, and which is, consequently, Asiatic. They are hunters and fishers, less in size and more imperfectly Christianized than the Voguls. I believe them to have been the gold-keeping _griffins_ (_Gryphes_) of Herodotus; though, to do this, the story of their relations to the Arimaspi must be supposed to have arisen in Armenia--no unlikely quarter, considering the probable line of the gold trade. A curious passage in Moses of Chorene tells us that the root _Astyag_, in the Old Armenian, signifies a _dragon_: and that _Astyages_, the Mede, was, in the eyes of an Armenian, Astyages _Draco_. Now, the locality of the Ostiaks is nearly that of the Uralian gold-mines, while just below them were the _Tsheremiss_, whose name in the mouths, first of a Skolotian and then of a Greek, might easily become _Arimasp_. The Greek could not pronounce the _tsh_; and as numerous Turkish words end in -_asp_, the -_p_ might have been added on the principle which in English converts _asparagus_ into _sparrowgrass_. We have thus been brought round to the Finlanders of Finland. With the reasons already given for considering the Russian in general to be a population of comparatively recent introduction, with the evidence in favour of the Skoloti having been intrusive Turks; and with the necessity of bringing the Lithuanians as far south as the Asiatic frontier, it is, surely, not too much to assert the doctrine that the original Russia was divided between two populations--one akin to the Permian, one to the Lithuanian. The line which divided them is, perhaps, an insoluble problem. Pskov and Smolensko, at least, may be given to the latter; Vladimir, Kostroma, Yaroslav, Moskow, and Tambov, to the former--Tula, Orlov, Koursk, Riazan, Tshernigov, Kharkhov, and Poltava, being left undistributed. Further details respecting the Turk intrusions into Eastern Europe still stand over. So do certain further questions respecting the Asiatic conquests of the Sarmatians. They will be considered in the ethnology of Turkey.