THE HUMAN SPECIES. 



favour of the assertion, that the woolly '. 

 of a distinct origin. There cannot be, however, a 

 doubt, that in the Mulatto state, or half-bred Cau- 

 casians, that peculiar structure of the skin must be in 

 part remaining, since, in the character of the hair, we 

 find it in proportion of the bearded parentage^the 

 frizzled and moplike character passes into spiral curls, 

 then undulates, and, at last, is wholly straight, while 

 in descending the scale, the mop becomes crisp, and 

 returns to that low state of humanity, which, in the 

 warm regions of the east, was branded with the re- 

 proach of being accursed. From this imputation, indeed, 

 the more physically elevated real Ethiopians were 

 not exempted. In the Sacred Scriptures, with perhaps 

 some exceptions, Chna and Egypt were so br^andfed , 

 to the promulgation of the Christian dispensation. 

 The hatred incurred by the race of Cham or Ham, 

 was indeed repeated in the north by the same pure 

 Caucasian stock towards the Hyperborean, if we may 

 take the earliest Finnic Tschutski, to have been the 

 first miners, and perhaps the Tubal Cain of the 

 Pentateuch ; for obloquy pursued both, although for 

 ages they were mixed races, and long the depositories 

 of the dawnings of civilization, though not the first to 

 organize human progress. 



Races of mixed Caucasians, afterwards known as 

 Joktanites, Indo-Arabs, and Semitics, descended the 

 west bank of the Indus, and from the remotest period, 

 secured the whole Suleimanie range, and, at this time, 

 already fixed upon the culminating point of Takt-y- 



