te 2211: The connection between the Magyar language and that of
the Finns is now almost generally admitted. Klaproth, Asia Polyglotta,
p. 188, &c. Malte Bran, tom. vi. p. 723, &c.--M.]

[Footnote 23: In the religion of Turfan, which is clearly and minutely
described by the Chinese Geographers, (Gaubil, Hist. du Grand Gengiscan,
13; De Guignes, Hist. des Huns, tom. ii. p. 31, &c.)]

[Footnote 24: Hist. Genealogique des Tartars, par Abulghazi Bahadur Khan
partie ii. p. 90-98.]

[Footnote 25: In their journey to Pekin, both Isbrand Ives (Harris's
Collection of Voyages and Travels, vol. ii. p. 920, 921) and Bell
(Travels, vol. i p. 174) found the Vogulitz in the neighborhood of
Tobolsky. By the tortures of the etymological art, Ugur and Vogul are
reduced to the same name; the circumjacent mountains really bear the
appellation of Ugrian; and of all the Fennic dialects, the Vogulian is
the nearest to the Hungarian, (Fischer, Dissert. i. p. 20-30. Pray.
Dissert. ii. p. 31-34.)]

[Footnote 26: The eight tribes of the Fennic race are described in the
curious work of M. Leveque, (Hist. des Peuples soumis a la Domination de
la Russie, tom. ii. p. 361-561.)]

[Footnote 27: This picture of the Hungarians and Bulgarians is chiefly
drawn from the Tactics of Leo, p. 796-801, and the Latin Annals, which
are alleged by Baronius, Pagi, and Muratori, A.D. 889, &c.]

[Footnote 28: Buffon, Hist. Naturelle, tom. v. p. 6, in 12mo. Gustavus
Adolphus attempted, without success, to form a regiment of Laplanders.
Grotius says of these arctic tribes, arma arcus et pharetra, sed
adversus feras, (Annal. l. iv. p. 236;) and attempts, after the manner
of Tacitus, to varnish with philosophy their brutal ignorance.]

Chapter LV: The Bulgarians, The Hungarians And The Russians.--Part II.

It is the observation of the Imperial author of the Tactics, [29] that
all the Scythian hordes resembled each other in their pastoral and
military life, that they all practised the same means of subsistence,
and employed the same instruments of destruction. But he adds, that
the two nations of Bulgarians and Hungarians were superior to their
brethren, and similar to each other in the improvements, however rude,
of their discipline and government: their visible likeness determines
Leo to confound his friends and enemies in one common description; and
the picture may be heightened by some strokes from their contemporaries
of the tenth century. Except the meri