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Early in the sixteenth century a few Armenians found their way into Southern India with the countenance ancl support of the Honourable East India Company, and under a contract with the company equal privileges with British subjects were conceded to the Armenians.The company further extended favours to them when they reached, in any town, the number of forty, by the provision of a place of worship ancl by annual grants of money.For a long time after their arrival in India they avoided mingling with other people, but latterly that rule has been broken through and alliances in marriage with Eurojieans are not unfrequent.The Armenians have diminished in numbers; ancl, it is said, are daily decreasing in influence.The chief causes of their approaching extinction in India appear to be the vice of intemperance, the taint of disease, and the contact with the Europeans, more especially the English.The physical ancl moral characteristics were described ; in the former it was stated that the Armenians are strongly allied to the Jewish race, from which they claim descent.The Chairman, referring to the uniformity of Armenian character, etc, wherever met with, said, according to the author of the paper, the priests entered the married state ; the people sometimes intermarried with the English; they were addicted to intemperance ; and, with regard to stature, that they were short and stout.Now, the Armenians of Transylvania were generally somew7hat stout, and rather above the middle size; they were temperate ; they intermarried with the Magyars, but not with the Saxons ; and the priests were per? mitted to marry, but did not do so.According to Dr. Shortt, the first Armenians found their way into Southern India early in the six? teenth century ; and the Armenians, like the Jews, are scattered over the earth.But there was this distinction, that the Armenian kingdom was broken up long before the sixteenth century, and no cloubt most of the Armenians of India w^ere colonists; indeed, the Armenians were generally very goocl colonists.According to Dr. Shortt, they profess to be descendants of Haik, grandson of Japhet; ancl after Aram, a descendant of Japhet, they called their country Armenia, and themselves Armenians.But Genesis did not mention Haik as a grandson of Japhet, ancl Aram was a descendant of Shem, ancl not of Japhet.The Armenians also derived their name, and that of their country, from Togarmah, grandson of Japhet; another grandson of Japhet was named Ashkenaz, and the latter was a geographical name in Armenia.The best etymology of the name Armenia was from Ilar-Minna, "the mountainous part of Minni"; the Minni of Jeremiah (a district placed between Ararat and Ashkenaz); the Miwa^ of Nicholas of Damascus.The following paper by John Stirling, Esq

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