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says: “Thou alone, O two-headed Janus—origin of the year—canst _ see thine own back.” But two-headed figures are found also in _ Lydia, and in Egypt, and the Indian Brahma has four heads. Japan. The Japanese empire extends over 162,655 square _ miles, including the four large islands, and a total of 4223 islands in all. The Kurile group was annexed as late as 1875. The population, according to the latest census, includes 44,260,606 persons: in 1872 it was only 33,110,825 persons, and it is apparently doubling itself within a century. It is generally held that the aboriginal races of China and Japan were quite distinct, and that the languages of the two countries show great philological differences, though both belong to the Turanian family (see Ainos). However this may be it is clear that the great Asiatic continent must, very early, have been the source of the race, language, and legends of Japan, just as the European continent is the source of population, language, faith, and superstition, whence Kelts, Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Latins, and Normans, came to the British Isles. Many indications point to the Japanese proper being descendants of the Samoyed Mongols of N.W. Asia, and ultimately connected with the small Lapp race and the Finns, The Samoyeds (as the Ru ians call them) of N.W. 337