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Rh Persian, Kurd and Baluchi- "resemble the bagshot sand which crown the heights of London, remnants of a once continuous formation, now extensively destroyed by denudation.“ Three links – the Dacian, Illyrian, and Thracian - are now known to philologists to be wanting between the European languages The Dacian and the Thracian might have formed the transition between the Slavonic to the East, the Celtic to the West and the Greek to the South. Phrygian and Thracian might have bridged the gulf between Armenian and Greek, Sarmatian between Slavonic and Iranian. It is on the supposition of the disappearance of so many of the central links that we can explain why the North and Southern languages of Europe have so little in common.

European philologists are engaged in determining the character of these intermediate links, so, that the