[101] The Phrygian was about as closely related to the Greek as Gothic to middle High German. See Curtius, History of Greece, Vol. I, p. 43, who acknowledges that the testimony of antiquity is in favor of the easterly migration of the Hellenic peoples, but denies the fact because it is in conflict with his Asiatic hypothesis.
[102] The Cypriote Greeks used a remarkable syllabic alphabet of great antiquity. R. H. Lang, Cyprus, pp. 8, 12 (London, 1878).
[103] On this important subject see Max Duncker, History of Greece, Vol. I, Chap. IV, “The Phenicians in Hellas;” and H. Schliemann, Tiryns, pp. 28, 57, etc.
[104] Hovelacque et Hervé, Precis d’Anthropologie, p. 573.
[105] This is the opinion of Penka, Schrader, Taylor, etc.
[106] “The Lithuanian language has more antique features by far than any other now spoken dialect of the whole great (Aryac) family.” W. D. Whitney, Oriental and Linguistic Studies, Vol. II, p. 228.
[107] In North Germany the present percentage of blondes is 42; in the German empire, 32; in Austria, 20; in Switzerland, 11. (Virchow, Die Verbreitung des blonden und des brunetten Typus in Mitteleuropa.)
[108] On the extreme diversity of skull-forms among the modern Russians see Revue d’ Anthropologie, 1889, p. 99. The race of the “Kurgans,” or ancient tombs, which are supposed to date back to the ninth or tenth century, had usually long skulls; but about 20 per cent. are short. Hervé is quite right in his statement, “Il n’y a pas un type général slave, il n’y a même pas un type slave du nord et un type slave du sud.” Précis d’ Anthropologie, p. 564.
[109] Cf. Gesa Kuun, “L’ Origine des Nationalités de la Transylvanie,” in Revue d’ Ethnographie, 1888, pp. 232, sqq.
[110] Omalius d’Halloy has called attention to the statement of Potocki, Voyages, p. 167, that the Ossetes, by their own traditions, came from southeastern Russia, on the river Don. They are generally blondes of the brachycephalic Slavonic type.