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ZOOLOGY. 



tending to and including China and the Chinese, the earliest, 

 seemingly, of civilized men. Siberia and Mongolia, the 

 Crimea, Thibet, Japan, the Aleoutian Isles, and even the 

 western shores of Northern America, are all occupied by this 

 race of men. 



Fig. 224. The Aboriginal Dative of Australia, from Peron. 



Some naturalists view the Malays as a distinct race of 

 men ; but most view them as a mixture of two races. 

 Lastly, the degraded races known as Laps, Samoides, Es- 

 quimaux &c., seem to be related to the Mongol race. A third 

 distinct variety of mankind is the Ethiopic, confined to 

 Africa, south of Mount Atlas, seemingly composed of several 



