474 DIVISION OF TKK HUMAN SPECIES 



former particularly developed; and the latter falling per- 

 pendicularly under them. Face oval and straight^ with 

 features distinct from each other -, expanded forehead, nar- 

 row and rather aquiline nose, and small mouth ; front teeth 

 of both jaws perpendicular 5 lips, particularly the lower, 

 gently turned out; chin full and rounded. Moral feelings 

 and intellectual powers most energetic, and susceptible of 

 the highest developement and culture. 



It includes all the ancient and modern Europeans, except 

 the Laplanders and the rest of the Finnish race; the former 

 and present inhabitants of Western Asia, as far as the river 

 Ob, the Caspian Sea, and the Ganges ; that is, the Assy- 

 rians, Medes, and Chaldeans ; the Sarmatians, Scythians, 

 and Parthians ; the Philistines, Phoenicians, Jews, and the 

 inhabitants of Syria generally; the Tatars*, properly so 

 called; the several tribes actually occupying the chain of 

 Caucasus ; the Georgians, Circassians, Mingrelians, Ar- 

 menians ; the Turks f, Persians J, Arabians §, Afghauns ||, 

 and Hindoos % of high caste ; the northern Africans, inclu- 



* For an account of the people, to whom this name of Tatar has been 

 applied at various periods of history, and of those to whom it is more strictly 

 applicable, see Ad ELUNG'sifii</ir«V/a^e5,v.i. p. 453. and following. Portraits 

 of Tatars are given by Corn. Le Brun, Voyage par le Moscovie en Perse, 

 S^c.; V. i.pp. 97. 104. 



+ Adelunc, loc. cit. For portraits, see Denox, Voyage, &"c. ,• pi. 106, 

 107; also Description de VEgypte; etat moderne, coutomes et portraits, 

 particularly v. ii. pi. 2, 



J Portraits in C. Le Brun, v. i. pi. 85—688. Representations of the 

 ancient Persian form may be seen in the fragments of Persepolitan sculp- 

 ture; ibid. V. ii. pi. 138, 142 ; and in the plates of antiquities in Mr. Mo- 

 rier's Travels in Persia, 



^ Den ON, Voyage dans la Haute et Basse Egypte; pi. 104, 105, 109, 

 110, 112. 



II Some indifferent figures in Elphinstone's Account of Caubul serve to 

 shew the physical traits. 



5 Buchanan's Journey from Madras, S)C. Portrait of Krishna Rajah,. 

 curtur or sovereifrn of Mysore; and of Nandi Rajah, his maternal grand- 

 father, ^^HindoosJ; v. i. frontispiece, and p. 67. Portraits of three sons of 

 Tippoo Sultan (Musselmen) ; v. iii. pi. 35. 36, 37. 



Our knowledge of the several tribes which occupy the great Indian pen- 

 insula is not yet sufficient to enable ub to class them satisfactorily. The 



