3.
POPULATIONS OF ASIA MINOR.
How numerous these may once have been is difficult to determine. Thus much, however, may safely be assumed;—
1. That the languages represented by the western dialects of the Georgian had some extension beyond their present frontier—possibly as far as Bithynia.
2. That the languages represented by the Lycian of the Lycian inscriptions had some extension beyond Lycia—possibly (though there are several difficulties to be reconciled) as far as the Hellespont.
3. That on some portion of the coast, a language intelligible to some portion of the Thracians on the one hand, and the Armenians on the other, was spoken.
Such are a few of the details of an important section of our subject.—They are given, however, more for illustrating the nature of the difficult question of Descent than for exhausting the subject.
The same applies to the complex subject of—
HYBRIDISM (EXTREME INTERMIXTURE).
Of this just enough will be said to illustrate the form which the present classification of the primary divisions of mankind renders necessary.