462 EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



PLATE XXV. 



Tribes bordering on the Rocky Mountains : the Cluche 

 in particular, is strongly marked with Mongolic characters. 

 He was sketched at New York. 



PLATE XXVI. 



Portrait of Montezuma and of Cu-sick, a Tuscarora 

 Baptist preacher, produced as evidence of the fact, that 

 civilized costume and mental development, efface much of 

 the distinctive characters of nations. 



PLATE XXVII. 



Portraits of Mongolic races : the Nogai Tahtar bearing 

 the characteristics of his type much more strongly than the 

 Chinese. 



PLATE XXVIII. 



The Black Kalmuck most strongly marked with tfce 

 Mongolic character; and a Japanese prize-fighter, with 

 broad but receding forehead, 



PLATE XXIX. 



More northern Mongols, showing a commencing Tschutski 

 or Finnic intermixture. 



