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types in themselves do not exemplify every human 

 physiognomy. The ancient inhabitants of America, 

 commonly known as the Red-Skins, are entirely over- 

 looked in this classification, and the distinction be- 

 tween the Negro and the white man can not always 

 be easily pointed out, for in Africa the Abyssinians, 

 the Egyptians, and many others, in America the Cali- 

 fornians, and in Asia the Hindoos, Malays, and Java- 

 nese are neither white nor black. 



Blumenbach, the most profound anthropologist of 

 the last century, and author of the first actual treatise 

 upon the natural history of man, distinguished in his 

 Latin work, De Homine, five races of men, the Cau- 

 casian, Mongolian, Ethiopian, Malay, and Ameri- 

 can. Another anthropologist, Prochaska, adopted 

 the divisions pointed out by Blumenbach, but united 

 under the name of the 'white race, Blumenbach's Cau- 

 casian and Mongolian groups, and added the Hindoo 

 race. 



The eloquent naturalist Lacepede, in his Histoire 

 naturelle de I'Homme, added to the races admitted 

 by Blumenbach the hyperborean race, comprising 

 the inhabitants of the northern portion of the globe 

 in either continent. 



Cuvier fell back upon Button's division, admitting 

 only the white, black, and yellow races, from which 

 he simply derived the Malay and American races. 



A naturalist of renown, Virey, author of I'Histoire 

 naturelle du Genre humain, I'Histoire naturelle de 

 la Femme, and of many other clever productions 

 upon natural history and particularly anthropology, 

 save much attention to the classification of the hu- 

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