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PLATE VI. 



Two profiles of Asiatic Acephali, one of the woolly 

 haired type, remarkable for the receding forehead, is taken 

 from Egyptian paintings at Kalaptche ; the other from a 

 modern Kurd. [This Plate is united with No. 8.] 



PLATE VII. 



Proves the typical identity of the Oriental Negro with 

 those of Mozambique and Guinea. 



PLATE VIII. 



The elevating process, which intermixture with Cauca- 

 sians effects, is here exemplified, for the mulatto offspring 

 of a first interunion has the features very nearly European. 

 The mestizo daughter of a mulatto woman has the profile 

 quite vertical, the hair, from nearly woolly, only crisped ; 

 and, in the third degree, the quartroon, the features are 

 refined and the hair simply curling. All these were copied 

 from silhouettes, taken by means of shadow from the liv- 

 ing subjects. 



PLATE IX. 



Exhibits profiles of Indo-Chinese, or the sub-type of what 

 we take to be the Malay races, where, in the vertical 

 profile of one, we have a Caucasian predominance, in the 

 other two, more Papua blood all in some degree partaking 

 of the Negro colouring, but with the hard black straight 

 hair of a Mongolic intermixture. In the Australasian 

 Islands, many customs remain, which attest that a portion 



