Cited:

“The Turks, the modern rulers of the Greeks, belong to the same family as the Tartars, and are scattered throughout Russia from the Crimea to Kasan; one of their colonies is established in Lithuania.

That people, foreign to Europe, or who only occupied in ancient times the Uralian confines, are now domiciled in our peninsula, and probably fixed in it for ages; they are incorporated with the Greek races, and with the ancient nations of Asia Minor and Thrace. The Turcomans, of whom a branch is settled in Macedonia, have preserved in-corrupted their Asiatic origin.”

Source

Cit. Universal Geography; or, A Description of All the Parts of the World, Volume VI, Boston, 1828, page 45 & 46