VERTEBKATA. 



AFRICAN NEGRO I KING OF ASHANTP.E. 



3. THE ETHIOPIAN VARIETY. 



Skin and eyes black ; hair black and woolly; skull compressed laterally, and elongated toward 

 the trout; forehead low, narrow, and slanting; cheek-bones prominent; jaws narrow and pro- 

 jecting; upper front teeth oblique ; chin receding. The eyes prominent; the nose broad, thick. 

 Hat, and confused with the extended jaw ; the lips, and particularly the upper one, thick. 



All the Datives of Africa, not included in the first variety, belong to this. 



4. THE AMERICAN VARIETY. 

 Skin dark, and more or less of a red tint : black, straight, and strong hair; small beard ; and 

 rantenancc and skull very similar to the Mongolian. The forehead low ; the eyes deep; the 

 face broad, particularly across tin' cheeks, but not so flattened as in the Mongols; mouth large, 



and li]>> lather thick. 



This variety includes all the aboriginal Americans except the Esquimaux. Nevertheless, there 

 «eems to be some differ nee between the Toltcc family which founded Mexico and Peru and the 

 great tin oi inferior tribes which remained in a barbarous state. "One of the most singular 

 features in the history of the American continent," saysCuvier, "is, that the aboriginal races, with 

 few exceptions, have perished, or constantly receded, before the Anglo-Saxon race,' and have in no 

 'ice either mingled with thrni as equals, or adopted their manners and civilization." 



"The barbarous races of America," says Dr. Nott, "excluding the Toltecs, are essentially m»- 



