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IIT. “ The Maray Race. It is characterized by a dark complexion, 
varying from a tawny hue toa very dark brown. Their hair is black, 
coarse, and lank, and their eye-lids are drawn obliquely upwards at the 
outer angles. The mouth and lips are large, and the nose is short and 
broad, and apparently broken at its root. ‘The face is flat and expanded, 
the upper jaw projecting, and the teeth salient. The skull is high and 
squared or rounded, and the forehead low and broad. This race is active 
and ingenious, and deseo all the habits of a migratory, pris 
and maritime people.” 
The subdivisions embrace—13th. The Malay; and 14th. 
The Polynesian (or South Sea Island) families. 
IV. “The American Race is marked by a brown complexion, long, 
black, lank hair, and’ deficient beard. The eyes are black and deep set, 
the =e low, the cheek bones high, the nose large and aquiline, the 
mouth large, and the lips tumid and compressed. The skull is small, 
wide between the parietal protuberances, prominent at the vertex, and 
flat on the occiput. In their mental character the Americans are averse 
to cultivation, and slow in acquiring knowledge ; Sse me and 
fond of war, ‘ad wholly destitute of maritime adventu 
The families into which this race is subdivided, are two: 15th. 
The American ; and 16th. The Toltecan. 
V. “The Ermoptan Race is characterized by a black complexion, 
and black, woolly hair; the eyes arelarge and prominent, the nose broad 
and flat, lips thick, and the mouth wide; the head long and narrow, the 
forehead low, the cheek bones prominent, the jaws projecting, and the 
chin small. In disposition, the negro is jovous, flexible, and indolent; 
while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diver- 
Sity of intellectual charset, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade. 
of humani ity. 
his race is divided: into—17th. The Negro; 18th. The 
elias 19th. "The Hottentot ; 20th. The Oceanic Negro ; 
2lst. The Australian; and 22d. The Alforian families. The 
latter family is most numerous in i Dew Guinea, the Moluccas 
and Magindano. 
The map which icin the work, shows the geographical 
distribution of the five races of men ; ‘and the lines of demarca- 
tion are those indicated by Professor Blumenbach, as separating 
the different races in the primitive epochs of the world. These 
divisions, of necessity, are only approximations to truth. The 
y between the Caucasian and Mongolian races is ex- 
