The Ethnology of Europe

THE ETHNOLOGY OF EUROPE.
BY R. G. LATHAM, M.D., ETC.
LONDON: JOHN VAN VOORST, PATERNOSTER ROW. — M.DCCC.LII.
LONDON: Printed by Samuel Bentley and Co., Bangor House, Shoe Lane.
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PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.—THE PHYSICAL PECULIARITIES OF EUROPE.—GENERAL SKETCH OF ITS ETHNOLOGY.—STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS.—THE SKIPETAR, OR ALBANIANS.—THEIR LANGUAGE, DESCENT.—THE FOUR TRIBES.—HOW FAR A PURE STOCK.—ELEMENTS OF INTERMIXTURE.
THE proper introduction to the ethnology of Europe is the following series of preliminaries:—
1. The physical peculiarities of the quarter of the world so called;
2. A general view of the stocks, families, or races which occupy it;
3. A statement of the chief problems connected with the Natural History of its populations.
1. The physical conditions of Europe are as remarkable in respect to their negative as their positive characters; in other words, there is a great number of points wherein Europe differs from Asia, Africa, America, and Polynesia, in respect to what it has not , as well as in respect to what it has .