INTO FIVE VARIETIES. 48/ 



dish brown, but it is of a clearer hue, and readily changes to 

 white. A tribe who dwell in the province of Baroa are of a 

 clear white and red, without any intermixture of the copper- 

 colour*." 



The most accurate observers, in various parts of the con- 

 tinent, have particularly noticed the imperfect developcment 

 of the forehead in the American race. '^ In the natives of 

 Nootka Sound," says Cook, " the visage of most is round 

 and full ; and sometimes also broad, with high prominent 

 cheeks ; and above these the face is frequently much de- 

 pressed, or seems fallen in quite across between the temples ; 

 the nose also flattening at its base, with pretty wide nos- 

 trils, and a rounded point. The forehead rather low f." 

 The same lowness of this region is remarked by Hearne J 

 in the northern Indians : by Lewis and Clarke §, of the 

 western tribes ; by Mr. Rollin, the surgeon who accom- 

 panied La Perouse, of the natives on the western coast in 

 58° N. lat. II, of the Californians ^, and the Chilians **, by 

 Dampier, of those on the coast of Nicaragua, and the 

 Isthmus of Darienft ; and by Humboldt, of the Americans 

 generally J J. In describing the Chaymas, he says that "the 

 forehead is small, and but little prominent. Thus in seve- 

 ral languages of these countries, to express the beauty of a 

 woman, they say that she isfat and has a narrow forehead §§." 

 A singular intellectual defect has been noticed in some Ame- 

 ricans, and may, perhaps, be connected with this peculiarity 

 in the configuration of the head. " The Chaymas have a 

 great difficulty in comprehending any thing that belongs to 

 numerical relations. I never saw a single man who might 



* Ciuil History of Chili, p. 4. 



+ Voyage towards the South Pole, v. ii. p. 183. 



+ Journey to the Frozen Ocean ; pp. 89, and 306. 



S Travels p. 64. and ch. 23. 



II Voyage, S^c. v. iii. p. 202. 



f Ibid. 201. 



** Ibid. 200. 



f + Voyages, 6,'c. v. i. p. 32 ; v. ii. p. 1 15. 



+ + See the quotation at [\. 370. 



^\ Personal iVarratiue, v. iii. p. 223. 



