_English_, birch-tree Inbask, _uusya_ Assan, _uça_ Kott, _uça_ Pustoserk, _chu_ Tawgi, &c., _kuie_ Ket, _tiue_ _English_, leaf Yeniseian, _yp-an_ Pumpokolsk, _efig_ Pustoserk, _wyba_ Obdorsk, _wiibe_ Yurass, _newe_ Tomsk, _tyaba_ Narym, _çabe_ Kamash, _dzhaba_ Nevertheless, the present class is provisional. All that is at present asserted, is that the three divisions which it contains, are not sufficiently distinct to be separated. Whether, however, the whole section may not, hereafter, become a sub-division of either the Turanian, or the Peninsular Mongolidæ, is doubtful. Most probably it will. FOOTNOTES: [87] Mammarum summitates apud Samöeidas nigerrimæ. Sic apud authores reperi; quos, suspicor, aut gravidas, aut viragines fusciores vidisse. Idem de Lapponibus traditur. Præcox, quoque, pro borealibus, puellarum Venus; catameniis ante duodecimum annum accedentibus. E. PENINSULAR MONGOLIDÆ. This division comprises tribes which, I believe, have not hitherto been thrown in the same class, tribes separated from each other by considerable breaks in the geographical, and even in the ethnological continuity. Some of these lie within the Arctic Circle; others as far south as 26° north latitude. Not less distant are the two extremes of their social development; one section of the group partaking of the civilization of China, another exhibiting the rudeness of the Samöeid, and Yeniseian. PENINSULAR NATIONS AND TRIBES. _Physical conformation._--Mongol. _Languages._--Agglutinate. In some cases excessively _poly_-syllabic. _Area._--Islands and peninsulas of the north-eastern coast of Asia. _Divisions._--1. The Koreans. 2. The Japanese. 3. The Aino. 4. The Koriaks. 5. The Kamskadales. After indicating the points of difference, it is necessary to justify the present classification by showing in what way the divisions of the Peninsular Mongolidæ agree. 1. They agree in their land and water relations--being, as is expressed by the epithet applied to them, the inhabitants of either _peninsulas_ or of islands that form an extension of them; a fact wherein we have, to a certain extent, common conditions in the way of physical, and common conditions in the way of social development. 2. They lie within a few degrees of the same _longitude_. This, however, is a mere consequence of their position on the same side of the same continent. 3. They are more maritime in locality than in habit; the Japanese being the chief navigators of the group. Compared, however, with the Chinese and Malays, the Japanese are but moderate navigators. 4. Although at present interrupted, there is good reason for believing that the original area was continuous. The parts that are broken are the tracts between Korea and the mouth of the Amur, and the south-west coast of the sea of Okhotsk. Now this interval is filled up by the Tungusian tribes; tribes whose area has certainly been an _encroaching_ one.