318 THE HISTORY OF CREATION, 
hair is stiff and black; the colour of their skin is of a 
light or dark brown tinge, sometimes more inclined to 
white or to yellow, like that of the Mongols, sometimes 
more to red, like that of the Americans. The languages of 
Polar men are as yet little known, but they differ both 
from the Mongolian and from the American. Polar men 
must probably be regarded as a remnant and a peculiarly 
adapted branch of that tribe of Mongols which emigrated 
from north-eastern Asia to North America, and populated 
that part of the earth. 
At the time of the discovery of America, that part of 
the earth was peopled (setting aside the Esquimaux) only 
by a single human species, namely, by the Redskins, or 
Americans (Homo Americanus). Of all other human spe- 
cies they are most closely related to the two preceding. 
The form of their skull is generally a medium one, rarely 
short or long-headed. Their forehead broad and very low; 
their nose large, prominent, and frequently aquiline ; their 
cheek-bones prominent; their lips rather thin than thick. 
The colour of their skin is characterised by a red funda- 
mental tint, which is, however, sometimes pure copper- 
red, or light red, sometimes a deeper reddish brown, yellow 
brown or olive brown. The numerous languages of the 
various American races and tribes are extremely different, 
yet they agree in their original foundation. Probably 
America was first peopled from north-eastern Asia by 
the same tribe of Mongols from whom the Polar men 
(Hyperboreans and Isquimaux) have also branched. This 
tribe first spread in North America, and from thence 
migrated over the isthmus of Central America down to 
South America, at the extreme south of which the species 
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