VARIETIES IN THE HUMAN RACE. 1 I 



have successively followed up and matured his work, 

 which Dr. Turton has rendered more accessible to the 

 mere English scholar, by a faithful translation. 



Linnaeus distributes the animal kingdom into six classes 



I. MAMMALIA, or animals which suckle their young; 

 including Man. the quadrupeds, and the whale kind. 



II. BIRDS. III. AMPHIBIOUS ANIMALS. IV. FISHES. 

 V. INSECTS. VI. WORMS.* 



In adopting the general arrangement of this illustrious 

 inquirer into nature, yet so as not to fatigue the juvenile 

 reader with his technical subdivisions and minute discri- 

 minations of form, I shall present a general description 

 of each class in succession, and then particularise some 

 of the most striking objects in every different order. As 

 our natural pride, however, will not permit us to rank in 

 the same class with apes, monkeys, maucaucoes, and bats, 

 it may be proper to give a brief account of the varieties 

 in the human race, before I enter on the consideration of 

 quadrupeds, and other mammalious animals. 



THE PRINCIPAL VARIETIES IN 

 THE HUMAN RACE. 



THOUGH there cannot be a doubt that all mankind, how- 

 ever disseminated over the globe, sprung from one parent 

 stock ; yet the influence of climate, civilisation, govern- 

 ment, and even of modes of life, have created great di- 

 versities in colour, shape, and stature. The boundary of 

 a river, the intervention of a hill, custom, accident, or 

 fashion, may sometimes occasion shades of distinction 

 which the most incurious observer will recognise ; and on 

 the other hand, long-continued intercourse will assimilate 



* The names of these six classes should be committed to memory. 

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