THE REASON WHY&quot;: 



Truth bids me look on men as autumn leave!*, 

 And nil they bleed for as the summer s dust 

 Driven by the whirlwind.&quot; YOUNG. 



the point, arid mouth large. To this division belong the inhabitants 

 of the peninsula of Malacca, of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, 



and the adjacent 

 islands of Australia, 

 Van Dieman s 

 Land, New Guinea, 

 New Zealand, and 

 the numberless is 

 lands scattered 

 throughout the 

 South Sea. 



7. Why have ilu 

 primitive types re 

 tained their charac 

 teristic features 

 chiefly in moun 

 tainous countries ? 



Because the 

 stream of immi- 

 MALAT. gration naturally 



takes place in the direction of rivers, by which the tribes of the 

 plains become mixed and changed ; but mountains are less acces 

 sible, and frequently form almost impenetrable boundaries. We 

 therefore find among mountaineers the remnants of the oldest races. 



8. }Vliy are, there so many different complexions in the tribes 

 composing the various types ? 



The problem has occupied the attention of philosophers and 

 divines in all ages. The result of their investigations shows that 

 no single cause, but a variety of causes, must be considered. The 

 most important of them are, 1, climate ; 2, organization ; 3, inter 

 marriage ; 4, exceptional circumstances. The influence of climate 

 is shown by the fact that every zone is more or less marked by a 

 distinctive colour. Black prevails under the equator, copper coioui 

 under the Tropics, olive and fair towards the poles. 



