262 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



THE HYPERBOREAN, BEARDLESS, OR 

 MONGOLIC TYPE. 



FROM what has been stated in the foregoing pages, on 

 the two preceding extensive subtypical stems of the 

 great family of Man, our chief aim has been, to pro- 

 duce some of the reasons, which at least seem to sub- 

 stantiate the conclusion, that both are results of amal- 

 gamations of two, or of all the three normal stocks, 

 separated from their original centres of existence at 

 different epochs ; part whereof may be of so remote a 

 date, that they precede a portion of those great terri- 

 torial dislocations already pointed out, which affected 

 both the Northern Pacific as well as the equatorial and 

 southern seas. Whether the period in question syn- 

 chronised with the avulsion of the plane of earth 

 which originally abutted on the western base of the 

 Cordilleras, is not now a question to be discussed in 

 the bearing it might have on human existence, since 

 there are sufficient evidences to show, that the present 

 tenants of the island groups can mostly be traced to 

 more recent periods; and the traditions of the northern 

 hemisphere in both continents, tend to prove the arctic 

 nations, of the present time, to be of comparatively late 

 expansion over their now dreary abodes. The ques- 

 tion, however, is not without some curious circum- 

 stances affecting the beardless type, which we pointed 



