_Locality._--The head-waters of the Kur. _Name._--Cartulinian, from the Province called Carthueli, the ancient Iberia. The Cartulinian dialect is the Georgian of Teflis, and the Georgian of the Georgian literature. _Alphabet._--Peculiar. Probably derived from the Armenian. WESTERN GEORGIANS. _Localities._--Guriel, Imeretia, and Mingrelia, _i.e._, the valley of Phasis. _Name._--Mingrelian. _Language._--More like the Lazic than it is to either the Cartulinian or the Suanic. SOUTH-WESTERN GEORGIANS. _Locality._--Lazistan. _Geographical Limits._--From the promontory of Kyemer-Burnu, east of Rizeh, east of Trebizond to the mouth of the Tchorok, south of Batoum. Not further than the Tchorok inland. _Political Relations._--Subject to Turkey. _Religion._--Mahometan; converted about 1580, A.D. Previously (at least in the reign of Justinian) Christians of the Greek Church. _Alphabet._--Arabic. Native literature none or scanty. Sub-dialects numerous, according to Rosen one for almost every valley. Greek words intermixed; some, probably, of considerable antiquity. NORTHERN GEORGIANS. _Locality._--The head-waters of the Tzchenistoquali, or Lasch-churi; the Hippus of the ancients. _Name._--Suanic. _Conterminous with_ the Northern Mingrelian dialects of the Georgian, and the Absné dialect of the Circassian. Less like any of the other Georgian dialects than they are to each other. The Suanians call-- Themselves, _S`wan_. The Caratschai Turks, _Ows_. The Absné, _Mibchaz_. The Irôn, _Sawi-ar_. The East Georgians, _M`karts_. The West Georgians, _Mimrel_. The Mingrelians, _Mumgrel_. _Descent._--As the Georgians may reasonably be considered to be the aborigines of the locality which they, at present, inhabit, they come before us as an ancient people. The Greek poet, who first sung of the Argonauts, knew, at least, enough of Colchis to make it a local habitation for his heroine--though that was not knowing much. The earliest navigator of the Euxine knew more; for, possibly, at a period anterior to the colonization of Asia Minor, he knew it as a real land. The Ægyptians, at the time of Herodotus, knew enough of it to claim it as a conquest of the great Sesostris. With this claim the question of _purity_ of the Georgian race commences. Two separate and definite immigrations have been supposed to have introduced into Colchis new ethnological elements. 1. _The settlement from Ægypt under the reign of the Great Sesostris._