DIFFERENCES OF FEATURES. 281 



In his Abbildungen Natur-historischer Gegenstande, p. 1 . 

 Blumenbach has given characteristic representations of 

 these five varieties, engraved from accurate portraits of cele- 

 brated individuals*. 



In features, as in colour, the different races are connected 

 to each other by the most gentle gradations ; so that, al- 

 though any two extremes, when contrasted, appear strikingly 

 different, they are joined by numerous intermediate and very 

 slightly differing degrees ; and no formation is exhibited so 

 constantly in all the individuals of one race, as not to admit 

 of numerous exceptions. 



We see, indeed, an astonishing difference, when we 

 place an ugly Negro (for there are such as well as ugly Eu- 

 ropeans) against a specimen of the Grecian ideal model ; 

 but when we trace the intermediate gradations, the striking 

 diversity vanishes. " Of the Negroes of both sexes," says 

 Blumenbach, " whom I have attentively examined, in very 

 considerable number, as well as in the portraits and profiles 

 of others, and in the numerous Negro crania, which I pos- 

 sess, or have seen, there are not two completely resembling 

 each other in their formation : they pass, by insensible gra- 

 dations, into the forms of the other races, and approach to 

 the other varieties even in their most pleasing modifications. 

 A Creole whom I saw at Yverdun, born of parents from 



* 1. Caucasian Variety. — Jusuf Aguiah Efendiy a Turk, formerly Am- 

 bassador from the Porte at the Court of London. 



2. Mongolian Variety. — Feodor Iwanowitsch, a Cahnuck, sent when 



young by the Empress of Russia to the Hereditary Princess of Baden, 

 educated at Carlsruhe, and afterwards a celebrated Engraver in Rome. 



3. American Variety. — Theyandaneega^a. Chief of the Mohawks or Six 



Nations, whose statement respecting one of the physical characters of 

 his countrymen is quoted from Philosophical Transactions at p. 294. 



4. Ethiopian Variety. — J.J. E. Capitein, aNegro, who received Holy 



Orders in Holland. 



5. Malay Variety. — Omai, a native of Ulietea, one of the Friendly Is- 



lands, brought to England in 1773, and carried back by Cook in his 

 last voyage. (Seeplates accompanying this work.) 

 Vignettes illustrating the same subject are introduced in the Bcytrdge ziir 

 Naturgcschichte; ir. theil. 



