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lowish-brown color, the hair lank and black, the 

 beard scanty, the stature below that of Europeans, 

 and the frame generally broad, square, and robust, 

 with high shoulders, and the neck thick and strong. 

 These attributes are much less strongly marked in 

 the case of some nations of Mongol parentage than in 

 others, and in the instances of the Magyars, Turks, 

 and Finns long settled among the Caucasian family 

 have in great measure disappeared. In point of 

 color, the Mongolian is known as the yellow va- 

 riety of mankind. 



The name of Mongolian, applied to this branch of 

 the human family, is derived from the nomad races 

 who peopled the upland plains of Central Asia. It 

 comprehends, besides the Mongols proper, the vast 

 population of China (above a third of the entire 

 human family), together with the Burmese, Siamese, 

 and other inhabitants of the southeastern peninsula 

 of Asia, and the native tribes of the Siberian low- 

 land. The Turks and the Magyars, in Southeastern 

 and Central Europe, the Finns, Samoiedes, and Lap- 

 landers, in the extreme north of the same continent, 

 and the Eskimos, in the correspondent latitudes 

 of the New World, belong to the same stock. In 

 all, probably three-fifths of the population of Asia, 

 and more than a half of the population of the globe, 

 are comprehended within this division of mankind. 



The Negro, or black variety of mankind, is dis- 

 tinguished in general by the elongated form of the 

 skull, combined with a low facial angle. The eyes, 

 as well as the skin, are black; the nose broad, flat, 

 and thick; the cheek-bones prominent; the lips 



