CLASS I. MAMMALIA: ORDER 1, BIMANA. 



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MONGOLIAN I GENGHIS KHAN. 



Chinese philosopher, Confucius, is an exception to the rule. To the Caucasian race belong the 

 Arabian, Persian, Hebrew, Egyptian ; and all the European nations are descended of the Cau- 

 casian race." 



This variety includes all the ancient and modern Europeans except the Finns ; the former and 

 present inhabitants of Western Asia, as far as the river Oby, the Caspian Sea, and the Ganges, — 

 that is, the Assyrians, Modes, and Chaldeans ; the Sarmatians, Scythians, and Parthians ; the 

 Philistines, Phenicians, Jews, and the inhabitants of Syria generally ; the Tartars, properly so 

 called ; the tribes actually occupying the chain of Caucasus ; the Georgians, Circassians, Mingre- 

 Iians, Armenians ; the Turks, Persians, Arabians, Afghans, and Hindoos of high castes ; and the 

 northern Africans, the Egyptians, Abyssinians, and Guanchcs. 



2. THE MONGOLIAN VARIETY. 



Characterized by olive-color, which in many eases is very light, and black eyes ; black, straight, 

 strong, and thin hair ; little or no beard ; head of a square form, with small and low forehead ; 

 broad and flattened face, with the features running together ; the glabella flat and very broad ; 

 nose small and flat ; rounded cheeks, projecting externally ; narrow and linear aperture of the 

 eyelids; eyes placed very obliquely ; slight projection of the chin ; large ears ; thick lips; stature, 

 particularly in the countries near the north pole, inferior to that of Europeans. 



It thus includes the tribes of Central and Northern Asia, as the Mongol's, Calmueks, and Buriats; 

 the Mantchoos, Daiirians, Tungooses, and Coreans ; the Samoiedes, Yukagers, Tschuktschi, Kori- 

 acs, and Kamtchatkadales ; the Chinese and Japanese ; th. inhabitants of Tibet and Bootan, of 

 Tonquin, Cochin China. Ava> Pegn, Cambodia, Laos, and Siam ; the Finnish races of Northern 

 Europe, as the Laplanders and the tribes of Esquimaux. 



