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row, the hair is coarse, lank, and black, the beard 

 scanty, not curly, partially or wholly wanting at the 

 ears, and it appears to be of the same pile as the hair 

 of the head. The nose is small, somewhat pointed, 

 and the mouth well formed. In the Nogai race the 

 nose is however round, flattened, and dilated, the 

 cheek-bones still more prominent, the lips are tumid, 

 and the eyes almost reduced to linear openings ; while 

 the black Kalmucks have the obliquity of the lids still 

 greater, so that their external angles seem to be almost 

 forty-five degrees above horizontal. All the true 

 beardless nations are olivaceous in colour, the skin 

 varying from a kind of sallow lemon peel, through 

 various shades of greater depth ; but it is never en- 

 tirely fair, nor intensely swarthy; although, in the 

 adulterated races that occupy the Himalaya range, 

 slight appearances of blush may be discerned among 

 young people ; . and the black Kalmucks, from some 

 other unexplained cause, are of an ashy darkness, not 

 far remote from the true Papua colour. The typical 

 nations are all square of body, in stature rather low, 

 the trunk long, the extremities seldom or never 

 lengthened, and the wrists and ankles are weak.* 



* Where the gland is visible, the eye horizontal, and the 

 beard spreads up to the sides of the ears, there is certainly 

 a mixed descent. It is most common, perhaps solely ob- 

 served, among natives of the northern provinces beyond 

 the wall. No doubt the superior energy and capacity they 

 evince, is the cause why they are every where in office, and 

 that so many portraits, thus characterized, occur in the 

 Chinese Museum now exhibiting in London. 



