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looches and Poushtoo Affghans, the Kurds of Kurdis- 

 tan, the Loures, the modern Persians, and the Ossetes 

 of Circassia, are all branches of this great stem, which 

 in ancient, and in more recent ages, has held dominion 

 over Egypt, and produced some men of great military 

 celebrity (such as Saladin the Great) ; geometricians ; 

 and in particular, poets of lasting reputation. 



THE TYPICAL CAUCASIANS. 



WE now come to the typical Caucasian family, which 

 embraces the greatest cerebral development in width 

 and depth, combined with the highest form of beauty, 

 strength, and power of endurance, coupled with a ner- 

 vous system less swayed by impulse. In this group 

 is found the most perfect notions of the ideal beautiful, 

 of relative proportion in art and in literature, of logic 

 and of the mathematical sciences in general. The 

 skull, though somewhat lower in the dome, is broader 

 in proportion than the Arab and the Hebrew, more 

 developed at the forehead, making that line more con- 

 tinuously vertical down the nose, which, in the finer 

 specimens, is not aquiline, but straight. The com- 

 plexion is clear brown, with mostly dark-brown hair, 

 passing to auburn, generally straight, the beard full, 

 the chest ample and deep, the loins small, the gait- 

 erect, and the tread martial. It is here that female 

 beauty is possessed of the highest human loveliness, 



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