Native Name.—Skipetar=Mountaineer.
Turkish.—Arnaout.
Locality.—The ancient Illyria and Epirus. Albanian settlers in Greece, Turkey, and Calabria.
Conterminous with the Greek, Turk, Slavonic, and Italian languages; and containing numerous words borrowed from each of them.
Religion.—Imperfect Christianity and Mahometanism.
Social Constitution.—Division and sub-division into tribes and families.
EXTINCT STOCKS.
Is there reason to believe that any definite stock, or division of our species has become either wholly extinct, or so incorporated as to be virtually beyond the recognition and analysis of the investigator? With the vast majority of the so-called extinct stocks this is not the case—e. g. it is not the case with the old Gauls of Gallia; who, though no longer extant, have extant congeners—the Welsh and Gaels.
To an extinction of this kind amongst the better-known historical nations of Europe and Asia—for in America such extinction, or the tendency towards it, is the normal condition of the majority of the aboriginal populations—the nearest approach is to be found in the history of—