NEGRO LEGS, HANDS, AND FEET. 



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The comparative results of several measurements are 

 placed in succession in the following list : — 



An Englishman 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Englishwoman 



Ditto 



European male skeleton . . 



Ditto 



A Negro, at the Lunatic 



Hospital, Liverpool .... 

 Another, from Virginia . . 

 Another, from the Gold 



Coast 



Another 



Negro skeleton 



Another 



A Lascar 



Venus de Medici 



Tyson's Chimpanse (Simia 



troglodytes) 



Mr. Abel's orang-utang . . 



Camper's ditto 



Mr. White's monkey .... 



The legs of the Hindoos are said to be long, and those 

 of the Mongolian nations short, as compared with those of 

 our own race. 



The ancients noticed that certain defects of form were 

 very frequent in the legs of the Egyptians, Ethiopians, and 

 Negro slaves. 



SoEMMERRiNG obscrvcs, that in the Negro the bones of 

 the leg seem pushed outwards under the femoral condyles ; 

 so that the knees appear rather further apart, and the feet 

 are directed outwards. This is the case in both his Negro 

 skeletons, and in more than twelve living Negroes whom 

 he examined *. It is seen in the cast of the Negro belong- 



* yon iler Korperl. Vtrsch. ^ 42. 



