VARIETIES OF THE HUMAN RACE. 25 



..V ' 



PEOPLE OF AMERICA WHO CANNOT BE REFERRED TO ANY VARIETY. 



North Americans. 



Head elongated ; nose long, projecting and very aquiline ; 

 forehead compressed and flattened ; complexion a copper red 

 in all climates ; hair black ; beard thin ; moral character en- 

 ergetic. [All North America ; all the plains and declivities 

 of the Cordilleras from Chili to Cumana and the Caribbean 

 Archipelago, inclusively.] 



South Americans. 



Head generally spherical ; forehead wide but depressed, as 

 among the Mongolians ; eyebrows elevated towards the tem- 

 ples; eye-balls projecting; nose flattened and depressed at 

 the root ; hair long, coarse and straight ; skin neither yellow, 

 nor black, nor copper ; lips very thick ; intellect generally 

 obtuse ; moral character altogether brutal. 



