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NATURAL HISTORY OF 



THE BEARDED, INTERMEDIATE, OR 

 CAUCASIAN TYPE, 



Is so named, because neither of the two other typical 

 forms is distinguished by a well grown beard. Inter- 

 mediate form is applicable with reference to the boreal 

 and tropical position of the other types. The appella- 

 tion of Caucasian remains likewise appropriate, when 

 understood to apply to the Indian or true Caucasus, or 

 Imaus of the ancients, for by these names the region 

 of Hindu-Koosh and the vicinity must be understood ; 

 and it is to that locality careful examination ulti- 

 mately traces the first habitation of at least the white 

 races of the bearded stock;* for the term white, though 

 it is in general sufficiently correct, is still not quite 

 admissible for the whole, since the colour varies from 

 pure white down to melanism, nearly as deep as a 

 genuine Negro. Albinism is frequent; and both the 

 phenomena of an entire horny skin and of total hirsute- 

 ness seem to belong exclusively to the bearded type. 

 It being to the form under consideration, that the 



* Caucasus of Western Asia is a name transferred with 

 many others from the central region of the old continent. 

 It seems to be derived from Koh-Cas, or Hindu-Koh, and 

 includes, besides that region also, Paropamissus, Emodus 

 Imaus, or Western Himalaya, with numerous and elevated 

 peaks, and the high lands of the Arii or Asii. Kohi-Baba, 

 the apparently highest point of the whole, appears to be the 

 local Kaf of Arabian tradition. 



