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Title: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877.

Author: Various

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LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE

OF

_POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE._

SEPTEMBER, 1877.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by J. B.
LIPPINCOTT & CO., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at
Washington.

AMONG THE KABYLES.

TWO PAPERS.--I.

[Illustration: MOSQUE AND DWELLING OF MARABOUTS, KOUKOU.]

Remains of old nationalities are scattered in odd corners all over the
earth. Every land, almost, possesses a relic of the kind markedly
different from the specimens preserved elsewhere, and peculiar enough to
give color to the old theory of its having sprung from the soil. These
torn and battered shreds of humanity are usually found lodged among the
rocks, the blast of foreign invasion having driven them thither from the
plains. The mountains not only give them shelter, but seem to reinfuse
new vigor, and thus in many cases enable them to exert more or less of a
reflex influence on their conquerors. This influence varies with the
character of the country and of the respective races. The invaders, if
actuated by civilizing impulses and not mere military ambition, will
make themselves useful and necessary to the natives, develop what
capacity they have, and absorb them politically. In the opposite case
fusion is not effected, and a degree of antagonism is maintained which
breaks out on occasion into actual hostilities. Between these two
extreme cases we may trace an infinity of examples, modified by endless
combinations of circumstances and conditions.

In Great Britain we see the Gael whirled up by successive gusts from
Italy, the Elbe and Normandy into the clefts of the Welsh and Scott