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features, which may prove their descent from a kindred 

 race. Several of these, like the Osages, not uncom- 

 monly reaching the height of six feet eight inches ; but 

 since the great disturbance of location, produced by the 

 European influx, they have latterly intermingled with 

 other tribes, and are now fast effacing their particular 

 characteristics. Perhaps the Yucatan giant master- 

 race disappeared, when the Astecs prevailed in Ana- 

 huac, from causes of a similar nature. Upon the whole, 

 the nations with depressed foreheads, when under the 

 guidance perhaps of Gomerian masters, seem to have a 

 community of other characters, such as constructiveness. 

 which distinguish the Paltas of South America as well 

 as the older Egyptians. 



