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especially, more considerable and prominent than in the best 

 models of the Caucasian variety, and that tlie jaws and 

 teeth altogether have a marked projection, this head is not 

 very essentially distinguished from that form. The fore- 

 head Is indeed more slanting than in the intellectual Euro- 

 pean h.eads ; but the whole structure has unequivocal marks 

 of an organization calculated for strength. 



The skull of a Buggess*, from the island of Celebes, has 

 the low slanting forehead, large face, and prominent jaws 

 of the true Negro ; but it combines the lateral expansion, 

 particularly across the cheeks, of the Mong-olian variety. 



The arrangement of skulls under the five general forms 

 just described is, in a great measure, arbitrary. It must not, 

 therefore, be taken in a strict sense : we must not expect 

 to find all the individuals comprised under each of these 

 varieties, decisively distinguished by the assigned characters 

 from all others. In the endless diversity of individual forms, 

 many instances are met with, in each variety, of organiza- 

 tions approaching to those of the others ; so that among 

 many Europeans and Negroes we might select skulls in 

 which it would be difficult to determine the predominant 

 character. The two intermediate forms between the Cau- 

 casian middle, and the Ethiopian and Mongolian extremes, 

 complete the series of gradations. Of the numerous tribes 

 or nations in each division, some come nearer to one and 

 some to the other of the two immediately adjoining varieties. 

 Thus the natives of some of the islands of the South Sea 

 are hardly to be distinguished in countenance and h.ead from 

 Europeans ; while others approach as near to the Negroes. 

 The Marquesas, the Society, Friendly, and Sandwich 

 Islanders, might be almost arranged under the Caucasian 

 variety ; while the natives of New Guinea, New Holland, 

 Van Dieman's Land, New Britain, &c. Loulsiade, &c. have 

 strong claims to be admitted into the Ethiopian division ; 

 and those of Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides, and New 

 Zealand, form so many points of transition between the 



* BLUMKNUACH, tab. 49. 



