478 DIVISION OF THE HUMAN SPECIES 



Ava, Pegu, Cambodia, Laos, and Siam ; the Finnish races 

 of northern Europe, as the Laplanders ; and the tribes of 

 Eskimaux extending over the northern parts of America, 

 from Bering's Strait to the extremity of Greenland. 



*' The Calmucks, and all the Mongolian tribes," says 

 Pallas, "are characterized by obliquity of the eyes, which 

 are depressed towards the nose, and by the rounded internal 

 angle of the eye-lids ; by thin, black and scarcely curved 

 eye-brows ; by tlic nose, which is altogether small and flat, 

 being particularly broad towards the forehead ; by high 

 cheek-bones ; a round head and face. Black-brown irides, 

 large and thick lips, short chin, white teeth remaining firm 

 and sound even in advanced age, and large ears standing off 

 from the head, are universal." " They are of middling size, 

 and we see very few tall people amongst them : the women 

 are particularly small, and very dilicately formed *." 



That the characters of the ancient Huns corresponded to 

 this description, may be collected from the short but ex- 

 pressive portrait, which Jornandes has drawn of Attila : 

 " Forma brevis, lato pectore, caplte grandiore, minutis oculis, 

 rarus barba, canis aspersis, simo naso, teter colore, originis 

 suae signa restituens." 



Mr. Barrow says, that " the Mantchoo Tatars are 

 scarcely distinguishable from the Chinese by external appear- 

 ances : the Chinese are rather taller, and of a more slender 

 and delicate frame, than the Tatars, who are in general 

 short, thick, and robust. The small eye, elliptical at the 

 end next the nose, is a predominating feature in the cast of 

 both the Chinese and Tatar countenance, and they have the 

 same high cheek bones and pointed chins. The native co- 

 lour both of Chinese and Tatars seems to be that tint be- 

 tween a fair and a dark complexion, which we distinguish by 

 the word brunet or brunette ; and the shades of this com- 

 plexion are deeper or lighter, according as they have been 

 more or less exposed to the influence of climate. The wo- 

 men of the lower class, who labour in the fields, or who 



* Pallas, llistor. Nachricht. Th. i. p. 98 and 99. 



