One thing, only, is certain--_viz._, that as an ethnological criterion the practice is of no great value. Capable, as it has been shown to be, of modification in form, it is anything but limited to either Tibet, or the families allied to the Tibetan. It occurs in many parts of the world. It is a Malabar practice; where it is, probably, as truly Tibetan as in Tibet itself. But it is also Jewish, African, Siberian, and North American; so that nothing would more mislead us in the classification of the varieties of man than to mistake it for a phenomenon _per se_, and allow it to separate allied, or to connect distinct populations. _Necdum finitus Orestes._--There are several populations which, on fair grounds, have been believed to be in the same category with the Dhekra, _i.e._, which are Hindú in language and creed, though monosyllabic in blood. The Kudi, Batar, Kebrat, Pallah, Gangai, Maraha, Dhanak, Kichak, and Tharu, are oftener alluded to than described--though, doubtless, a better-informed investigator in such special matters than the present writer could find several definite details concerning them. They seem chiefly referable to Behar and north-eastern Bengal. The _Dhungers_--in the same class--the husbandmen of South Behar, bring us down to the vicinity of the population next to be noticed; a population which is generally considered with reference to the nations, tribes, and families of _Southern_ rather than _Northern_ India. The name of this family has already been mentioned. It is _Tamulian_; and the _Tamulian_ physiognomy has been described. It has been seen to extend as far north as the Himalayas. If so, the nations already enumerated have been Tamulian; and no new class is now approaching. This may or may not be the case. Another change, however, is more undeniable. This is that of language. It is no longer referable to the Chinese type; since separate monosyllables have, more or less perfectly, become _agglutinated_ into inflected forms, and the speech is as _poly_-syllabic as the other tongues of the world in general. As we approach the south this abandonment of the monosyllabic character increases, and from the _Tamul_ language spoken between Pulicat and Cape Comorin, the term _Tamulian_--applicable in a general ethnological sense--is derived. _Agglutinated_ (or _agglutinate_) is also a technical term. It means languages in the second stage of their development; when words originally separate, such as adverbs of time, prepositions, and personal pronouns, have become permanently connected with the root, so as to form tenses, cases, and persons--the union of the two parts of an inflected word being still sufficiently recent and imperfect to leave their original separation and independence visible and manifest. When the incorporation or amalgamation, has become more complete; so complete, as in most cases to have obliterated all vestiges of an original independence; the _agglutinate_ character has departed, the