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by his bearing recalls the slender, active Hylobates, the Indian 

 is more like the slow, inactive, stout Orang. Of course there are 

 exceptions to this rule ; short, thick-built Negroes are occasion- 

 ally to be seen, as well as tall, lean Indians ; but, so far as my 

 observation goes, the essential difference between the Indian and 

 Negro races, taken as a whole, consists in the length and square 

 build of the trunk and the shortness of limbs in the Indian as 

 compared with the lean frame, short trunk, deep-cleft legs, and 

 long arms of the Negro. 



Another feature not less striking, though it does not affect the 

 whole figure so much, is the short neck and great width of the 

 shoulders in the Indian. This peculiarity is quite as marked in the 

 female as in the male, so that, when seen from behind, the Indian 

 woman has a very masculine air, extending indeed more or less to 

 her whole bearing ; for even her features have rarely the feminine 

 delicacy of higher womanhood. In the Negro," on the contrary, 

 the narrowness of chest and shoulder characteristic of woman is 

 almost as marked in the man ; indeed, it may well be said, that, 

 w T hile the Indian female is remarkable for her masculine build, the 

 Negro male is equally so for his feminine aspect. Nevertheless, 

 the difference between the sexes in the two races is not equally 

 marked. The female Indian resembles in every respect much more 

 the male than is the case with the Negroes \ the females among 

 the latter having generally more delicate features than the males. 



On following out the details concomitant with these general dif- 

 ferences, we find that they agree most strikingly. In a front 

 view of an Indian woman and a Negress the great difference is in 

 the width between the breasts of the former as compared with their 

 close approximation in the latter. In the Indian the interval be- 

 tween the two breasts is nearly equal to the diameter of one of 

 them; while in the Negro they stand in almost immediate contact 

 But this is not all ; the form of the breast itself is very different 

 in the two. The Indian woman has a conical breast, firm and well 

 supported, the point being turned so far sideways that the breast 



