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and the Negro, which should for ever rank them as separate 

 species. The few hundred years that have elapsed since the 

 Spaniards discovered South America, have so amalgamated 

 the natives with their conquerors, that in some districts the 

 Indian and European features and forms are completely lost 

 as distinctive characters in the common mass ; and of the mix- 

 ture of races whose fading distinctions have been noticed by 

 Humboldt, a few centuries more will obliterate every trace. 



M. Bory classes his fifteen species of men into two sub- 

 genera, viz. I. Leiotriques, or those with lank hair; and 

 II. Oulotriques, or those with frizzled hair. Among the 

 Leiotriques he distinguishes the following species: 



1 . Homo Japeticus, the first species, occupies a geographi- 

 cal space extending from the chains of mountains which unite 

 near the parallel of 45° N. ; and stretching from E. to W. 

 from the west and southern shores of the Caspian to Cape 

 Finisterre, projected into the Atlantic ocean. There are four 

 varieties of the Homo Japeticus, viz. the Caucasian or Orien- 

 tal race — the Pelagic or Southern — the Celtic or Western — 

 and the German or Northern. 



2. Homo Arabicus, the second species, consists of two races 

 (why not species ?) — the Atlantic or Western — and the 

 Adamic or Oriental. This last, M. Bory conceives as proper 

 to Abyssinia, where he thinks the garden of Eden and Adam's 

 cradle are more likely to be found than in Mesopotamia. 



3. Homo Indicus. — This species is confined between the 

 shores of the Indus or Sind and Ganges on the north, and the 

 border of the Indian sea on the South. 



4. Homo Scythicus. — Confusedly known under the names 

 of Turcomans, Kirguis, Cossacks, Kalmouks, Mongols and 

 Mantchous ; and inhabiting Bucharest, Songria and Davuria — 

 all the vast Asiatic surface which extends from the Caspian 

 sea to the sea of Japan.. 



5. Homo Sinicus. — Composed of the people called Corcans, 

 Japanese, Chinese, Tonkinese, Cochinchinese, Siamese, and 

 Birmans. These five species belong to the old continent. The 

 three following are common to the new and old. 



6. Homo Hyperboreiis. — The Laplanders, Samoiedes, the 

 people of the most northern parts of Scandinavia and Russia ; 



