. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. iking analogies in their respective idioms, seem to belong tothem. Tiie Esquimaux have from time immemorial extended over all the north of the NewWorld; while the sedentary Tchutchhis, who speak a language evidently related to theidioms of those American tribes, occupy only the extreme north-east of Asia. The Tcliutch-his we therefore consider as American colonies, and, following the precedent of Balbi,re-unite them as such to the other nations of America who form the f
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. iking analogies in their respective idioms, seem to belong tothem. Tiie Esquimaux have from time immemorial extended over all the north of the NewWorld; while the sedentary Tchutchhis, who speak a language evidently related to theidioms of those American tribes, occupy only the extreme north-east of Asia. The Tcliutch-his we therefore consider as American colonies, and, following the precedent of Balbi,re-unite them as such to the other nations of America who form the family of the Es-quimaux. Under a perfect ethnographical arrangement, the languages of the Indo-Germanic nations,extending from Ceylon and the Ganges to the extreme west of Europe, and even to Ice-land, would form, not a single family, but rather an ethnographic kingdom divided into sixfamilies. In subsequent parts of this work, the languages of the earth will be considered as dividedinto five principal branches; the European, the Asiatic, the African, the American, andthe Oceanic. 286 MAP OF EUROPE—WEST part. Fig. Lonjitude 5 VVeit 5 Longitude East lo from Greeawich 15 Fig. 85. MAP OF EUROPE—EAST part. 287
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