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.
5. As compared with the Chinese, the Japanese and Korean languages are not monosyllabic.
6. As compared with the Yakut Turk, and the Lamut Tungusian, the Kamskadale and Koriak are not Turanian.
7. What applies to the language of the Peninsular tribes applies to their physical appearance also.
All this, however, may be the case without affording the least proof of a true ethnological connection, i.e. of a connection in the way of descent and affiliation; since even the similarity of physical appearance, which, making allowance for differences of latitude and civilization, is, from all accounts, very close, may merely be the effect of common climatologic conditions, wholly independent of relationship.
To prove this a fresh set of facts is required. Nor are they wanting.
1. The Peninsular languages have a general glossarial connection with each other; the grammatical structure of only one of them (the Japanese) being known.
2. The Peninsular languages have a general glossarial connection with a third class.