Since the Sections which relate to Ethnology passed through the Press, the First Volume of Mr. Rawlinson’s Herodotus has appeared. Earlier possession of this important Publication would have emboldened me to proceed a step further in the attempt to specify the probable or possible form of the original Ethnic relation between the Pelasgians and the Hellenes of the Greek Peninsula, but designating the latter as pure Arian, and the former as Arian, with a residue or mixture of Turanian elements. It has also been since the ‘Olympus’ was printed, that I have become acquainted with Welcker’s recent and unfinished ‘_Griechische Götterlehre_,’ (Göttingen, 1857.) I could have wished to refer to it a…
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