THE PRINCIPAL BRANCHES OF THE HUMAN RACE. 



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It will not be out of place, here, to give a sketch of the divisions or 

 varieties of mankind, as various physiologists have arranged them. 



Blumenbach regards Man as a single species, with five great varieties ; 

 viz., the Caucasian, the Mongolian, the Ethiopian, the Malay, and the 

 American. The Caucasian he supposes to be the primitive type; the 

 rest, its immediate offsets : on one side he places the Mongole ; on the 

 other, the Ethiopian ; the American intervening between the Mongole and 

 Caucasian, as an intermediate form ; the Malay between the Ethiopian 

 and the Caucasian. 



CAUCASIAN. 



I 



ETHIOPIAN. 



AMERICAN. 



I 

 MONGOLIAN. 



Cuvier considers the branches of mankind to be referable to three stocks, 

 the Caucasian, the Mongole or Altaic, and the Negro or Ethiopian. The 

 following table represents their respective ramifications : 



Assyrians. 

 Chaldeans. 

 Arabs. 

 Phoenicians. 

 Hebrews. 

 Abyssinians. 

 Egyptians ? 



Sanscritic race. 



CAUCASIAN. 



ARMENIAN. 



Pelasgic ditto. 



Gothic ditto. 



- Sclavonic ditto. 



Ancient Persians. 



Hindoos, &c. 



Celtic ? * 



Greek. 



Latin. 



r German and Dutch. 

 J English. 



L Danish, Swedish, &c. 

 ,- Russ. 

 I Polish, 

 j Bohemian. 

 I Vendean. 



SCYTHIAN r Parthians. 



AND I Turks. 



TARTAR. I Finlanders. 

 L Hungarians. 



CALMUCS. 



KALKAS. 



MANTCHOUS. 



JAPANESE AND COREANS. 



/ Samoiedes? 



SIBERIANS. < Laplanders ? 

 v Esquimaux ? 



* With respect to the Celtic race, Cuvier seems to think that it may have been a distinct branch 

 of the Caucasian, which, at a very remote epoch, spread over western and southern Europe; and we 

 agree with him in this conjecture. The Celtic tongue was once very extensive, and the radical deriva- 

 tion of numerous Latin words, to say nothing of other languages, is to be traced to that source. 



MONGOLE 



OR 



ALTAIC. 



