Note 179 — XIII. HERE FOLLOWETH CONCERNING GEORGIANA.

“The Georgians are the Christian, the Circassians the Mohammedan, cavaliers of the Caucasian countries; they stand in the same relative position as the Goths and Moors of Spain.” “The bases and principles of the organization and general condition of the Georgian people bore great resemblance to those of the Germanic race, comprising a feudal constitution, perfectly analogous to the Romano-Germanic. In this warlike country the Christian hierarchy was constituted in a perfectly analogous manner to the temporal feudal state,” etc. (Haxthausen, pp. 113, 117.)