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to America, Canada, Australia, and other parts of the world 

 by colonisation. 



Dr. Pickering calls the European race Arabian, and makes 

 it extend through the whole of Europe, India, Arabia, 

 and the northern parts of Africa, believing all these to 

 have been derived from the same stock, and forming varia- 

 tions of the same family. The language spoken by the 

 Europeans of all classes has been called Indo-European, 

 hence Pickering classes with them the Hebrews, Armenians, 

 Parsees, and many more, all derived from a stock supposed 

 to have migrated from Asia into Europe and Africa. 



The ABYSSINIAN. This race inhabits the table lands of 

 Abyssinia, and its extension into the interior. Dr. Pickering 

 thus describes the ap- 

 pearance of three indi- 

 viduals of this race whom 

 he met at Singapore 



" The hair was much 

 alike in all three, and 

 was crisped and fine, 

 neither coarse enough 

 nor in sufficient quantity 

 to form a resisting mass. 

 The beard of one indi- 

 vidual was in pellets 

 absolutely like the close 

 wool of the Negro, but 

 the prominence of nose, 

 greater even than usually 

 occurs in the white race, 

 bore sufficient testimony 

 to his purity of descent. The second individual had the face 

 very much elongated, but the nose was not particularly 

 prominent. The third had a straighter beard, which was 

 black and grey in regular stripes! The complexion was 

 the same in all three, and though very light, was by no means 

 of a sickly hue, and indeed these persons might readily have 

 been passed in the streets as belonging to the white race." 



