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SO formed. Both forehead and chin in general 

 recede, so as to give a more curved profile than is 

 usually to be observed in any variety of the Cau- 

 casian race, or among the male Chepewyans or 

 Crees, though some of the female 'Tinne have 

 countenances approaching to the egg-shape. As 

 contrasted with the other native American races, 

 their eyes are remarkable, being narrow and more 

 or less oblique. Their complexions approach more 

 nearly to white than those of the neighbouring 

 nations, and do not merit the designation of " red," 

 though from exposure to weather they become dark 

 after manhood. As the men grow old, they have 

 more hair on the face than Red Indians, who take 

 some pains to eradicate it, but I observed none 

 with thick bushy beards or whiskers like those of 

 an European who suffers them to grow. An in- 

 spection of the portraits in " Franklin's Second 

 Overland Journey," and in " Back's Great Fish 

 River," will show that in elderly individuals both 

 the upper lip and chin have a tolerable show of 

 hair, though none have the flowing beard which 

 was productive of so much benefit to Richard 

 Chancellor and his countrymen. 



Dr. Pickering sa3's of the Mongolian, with which, 

 in common with other ethnologists, he classes the 

 Eskimos and the major part of the other American 

 nations, that both sexes have a feminine aspect ; 



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