Here I pause,--giving, at present, no opinion upon the merits of the two views. The reader has seen the complications of the case; and is prepared for hearing that, though most of the highest authorities consider the languages of northern India to be related to the Sanskrit, just as the English is to the Anglo-Saxon, and the Italian to the Latin; others deny such a connexion, affirming that as the real relations of the Sanskrit are those of the Norman-French to our own tongue, and of the Arabic to the Spanish, there is no such thing throughout the whole length and breadth of Hindostan as a dialect descended from the Sanskrit, or a spot whereon that famous tongue can be shown to have existed as a spoken and indigenous language. But, perhaps, we may find in Persia what we lack in India; and as the modern Persian is descended from the Zend, and as the Zend is a sister to the Sanskrit, Persia may, perhaps, supply such a locality. The same doubts apply here. Such are the doubts that apply to an important question in Asiatic ethnology. I am not, at present, going beyond the simple fact of their existence. Rightly or wrongly, there is an opinion that the Sanskrit never was indigenous to any part of India, not even the most north-western; and there is an extension of this opinion which--rightly or wrongly--similarly excludes it from Persia. So much doubt should be relieved by the exhibition of some universally admitted fact as a set-off. Such a contrast shall be supplied, in the shape of a comment on the following tables.[41] It is one of Dr. Trithem's. ENGLISH. LITHUANIC. RUSSIAN. SANSKRIT. _Father_ tewas otets pitr. _Mother_ motina mat' mātr. _Son_ sunai suin sūnu. _Brother_ brolis brat bhratr. _Sister_ sessu sestra svasr. _Daughter-in-law_ -- snokha snushā.[42] _Father-in-law_ -- svekor[43] śvasúra. _Mother-in-law_ -- svekrov'[44] śvas ru. _Brother-in-law_ -- dever'[45] devr. _One_ wienas odin eka. _Two_ du dva dvā. _Three_ trys tri tri. _Four_ keturi chetuire chatvārah. _Five_ penki piat' pancha. _Six_ szessi shest' shash. _Seven_ septyni sedm' saptan. _Eight_ asstuoni osm' ashtan. _Nine_ dewyni deviat' navan. _Ten_ dessimtis desiat' dasá. The following similarities go the same way, _viz._, towards the proof of a remarkable affinity with certain languages of _Europe_, there being none equally strong with any existing and undoubted Asiatic ones.