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people must ultimately be Samoyed, Esquimaux, and 

 Lapland fish-eating Hyperboreans ; the sole remain- 

 ing race of the beardless stock to which we have 

 space to refer. 



This people, in both continents, being ever greatly 

 restricted in food, either at no time acquired the full 

 stature of the type, or it still retains the original ap- 

 pearance, from which the nations in better circum- 

 stances have passed to more ample structures. Though 

 diminutive, they possess all the characteristics of the 

 Mongolic form, so far as they remain unmixed ; but in 

 several instances, they have formed unions with the 

 nearest ejected Caucasian tribes in Eastern Asia, and 

 also, in extending along the arctic shores, to the west. 

 By means of their snow skates, their rein deer, and 

 their seal skin coracles, they found means to traverse 

 a great space in less time than other migrators to 

 cross over ice in winter to pass the Asiatic Mediter- 

 ranean, which at that period may not as yet have been 

 totally absorbed or to cross Behring's Strait, which, 

 however, they do not seem to have accomplished until 

 ages had elapsed. In this manner, they came early in 

 contact and commixture with Caucasians, such as the 

 western Yeta tribes, on the shores of the sea, or those 

 they may have found to the west of it, about the Oura- 

 lian mountains, and formed the Finnic subtypical stem 

 on one side, and the Tschudic on the other. Both 

 these suppositions are strengthened by the appearance 

 of Finnic words in the Mexican language, and by a 

 similar occurrence in the Basque dialect of the Pyrenees; 



