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number of others of which I cannot speak in 

 this place, are determined, and tabulated with 

 reference to the basi cranial axis as unity, for large 

 numbers of skulls of the different races of Mankind, 

 I do not think we shall have any very safe basis 

 for that ethnological craniology which aspires to 

 give the anatomical characters of the crania of the 

 different Races of Mankind. 



At present, I believe that the general outlines 

 of what may be safely said upon that subject may 

 be summed up in a very few words. Draw a line 

 on a globe, from the Gold Coast in Western Africa 

 to the steppes of Tartary. At the southern and 

 western end of that line there live the most 

 dolichocephalic, prognathous, curly-haired, dark- 

 skinned of men the true Negroes. At the 

 northern and eastern end of the same line there 

 live the most brachycephalic, orthognathous, 

 straight-haired,yellow-skinned of men the Tartars 

 and Gal mucks. The two ends of this imaginary 

 line are indeed, so to speak, ethnological antipodes. 

 A line drawn at right angles, or nearly so, to this 

 polar line through Europe and Southern Asia to 

 Hindostan, would give us a sort of equator, around 

 which round-headed, oval-headed, and oblong- 

 headed, prognathous and orthognathous, fair and 

 dark races but none possessing the excessively 

 marked characters of Calmuck or Negro group 

 themselves. 



It is worthy of notice that the regions of the 



