t very far from being decided. We are of opinion
that it will be so hereafter in the same manner as that with regard to
the Scythians. We shall trace in the portrait of Attila a dominant tribe
or Mongols, or Kalmucks, with all the hereditary ugliness of that race;
but in the mass of the Hunnish army and nation will be recognized the
Chuni and the Ounni of the Greek Geography. the Kuns of the Hungarians,
the European Huns, and a race in close relationship with the Flemish
stock. Malte Brun, vi. p. 94. This theory is more fully and ably
developed, p. 743. Whoever has seen the emperor of Austria's Hungarian
guard, will not readily admit their descent from the Huns described by
Sidonius Appolinaris.--M]

[Footnote 28: See in Duhalde (tom. iv. p. 18--65) a circumstantial
description, with a correct map, of the country of the Mongous.]

[Footnote 29: The Igours, or Vigours, were divided into three branches;
hunters, shepherds, and husbandmen; and the last class was despised by
the two former. See Abulghazi, part ii. c. 7. * Note: On the Ouigour
or Igour characters, see the work of M. A. Remusat, Sur les Langues
Tartares. He conceives the Ouigour alphabet of sixteen letters to
have been formed from the Syriac, and introduced by the Nestorian
Christians.--Ch. ii. M.]

[Footnote 30: Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom. xxv. p.
17--33. The comprehensive view of M. de Guignes has compared these
distant events.]

[Footnote 31: The fame of Sovou, or So-ou, his merit, and his singular
adventurers, are still celebrated in China. See the Eloge de Moukden,
p. 20, and notes, p. 241--247; and Memoires sur la Chine, tom. iii. p.
317--360.]

[Footnote 32: See Isbrand Ives in Harris's Collection, vol. ii. p. 931;
Bell's Travels, vol. i. p. 247--254; and Gmelin, in the Hist. Generale
des Voyages, tom. xviii. 283--329. They all remark the vulgar opinion
that the holy sea grows angry and tempestuous if any one presumes to
call it a lake. This grammatical nicety often excites a dispute between
the absurd superstition of the mariners and the absurd obstinacy of
travellers.]

[Footnote 32a: 224 years before Christ. It was built by Chi-hoang-ti
of the Dynasty Thsin. It is from twenty to twenty-five feet high.
Ce monument, aussi gigantesque qu'impuissant, arreterait bien les
incursions de quelques Nomades; mais il n'a jamais empeche les invasions
des Turcs, des Mongols, et des Mandchous. Abe Remusat Rech. Asiat. 2d
ser. vol. i. p. 5