VARIETIES OF MANKIND. 441 



The ossa nasi lie so flatly as to form scarcely any ridge j the 

 face, as we have formerly seen, projects considerably at its lower 

 part ; * the lower jaw is not only long but extremely strong ; the 

 chin not only not prominent but even receding, and the space 

 between it and the lower teeth is small, while that between the 

 upper teeth and the nose is large ; the meatus auditorius is nearer 

 the occiput, — more remote from the front teeth than in the Euro- 

 pean 5 the foramen magnum occipitale lying farther back, the 

 occiput is nearly in a line with the spine j the body is slender, 

 especially in the loins and pelvis, whose cavity likewise is small ; 

 the length of the fore-arms and fingers bears a large proportion 

 to that of the os humeri ; the os femoris and tibia are more 



In them too it is much stronger. I recollect walking one night many years ago 

 with a physician to the house of a poor man in the suburbs of town. The wife 

 came to the door with a candle in her hand, and, opening a dark room on one 

 side of the passage, begged me to walk into it while she lighted the physician 

 to her husband. My nose was presently struck by a very strong smell, some- 

 thing like that of bacon. At the return of the light I perceived three or four 

 little mulattos asleep in a sort of bed, and after leaving the house my friend 

 informed me that the woman's husband was a black. 



* Camper, (Dissertation physique sur les differences rielles, que presentent 

 les traits du visage chez les hommes de diffirens pays ct de diffirens ages) gives 

 the following proportions of the facial angle. 



European - - - -. - 80 or 90 

 Chinese - - - ... 75 

 Negro ... jo 



Ourang-outang 58 



Monkey ----- 42 

 Mr. White of Manchester (Essay on the regular gradation) states them 

 rather differently. 



European 80 to 90 



Asiatic ----- 75 80 

 American ----- 70 75 

 African ----- 60 70 

 Orang-outang - - - - 50 60 

 Monkey - - - - - 40 50 

 Cuvier gives 75° for the facial angle of the young orang-outang. 1. c. viii. 

 Art. i. 



