THE PRINCIPAL BRANCHES OF THE HUMAN RACE. 



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Lesson, in his Mammalogie, gives the following arrangement : 



WHITE 



OR 



CAUCASIAN 

 STOCK. 



YELLOW 



OR 



MONGOLE 

 STOCK. 



BLACK 



OR 



NEGRO 

 STOCK. 



Branch. 



1. ARMENIAN. 



j- Assyrians, Chaldeans, Arabs, Phoenicians, Jews, 

 * Abyssinians, and, perhaps, the Egyptians. 



2. INDIAN, GERMAN, | The Celts , Cantabrians , p ersians , &c . 

 AND PELASGIC. ' 



3. SCYTHIAN AND 

 TARTAR. 



Branch. 



1. MANTCHOU. 



2. CHINESE. 



3. HYPERBOREAN, OR 



ESQUIMAUX. 



4. AMERICAN. 



5. MONGOLE-PELAS- 

 GIC, OR CAROLINE. 



Branch. 



1. ETHIOPIAN. 



2. CAFFRE. 



3. HOTTENTOT. 



4. PAPOU. 



5. TASMANIAN. 



6. ALFOUROUS-EN- 



DAMENES. 



,1. Malays proper. 

 (-Variety I. J 2. Javanese. 

 rScythians, Par- Malay. 1 3. Macassars. 

 I thians, Turks, I U. Amboyna Malays. 



J Hungarians, j rA. branch of the Hindu 



[^ j c> Variety II. J family spread through 



[_ Oceanic. 1 the isles of the South- 

 *- ern Ocean. 



Bucharia, to the frontiers of Japan. 

 China and Japan. 



} Laplanders, Samoiedes, Labadors, Aleutians, &c. 



r Peruvians, Mexicans, Araucans, Patagonians, Ca- 

 * ribs, Canadians, &c. 



^-Natives of the long chain of islands (the archi- 

 < pelago of the Carolines) from the Philippine to 

 * the Mulgrave Islands. 



Senegal, Guinea, Congo, and true Negroes. 



South Africa and the shores of Madagascar. 



District of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 r Papuan Islands, New Caledonia, Bouka, Wai- 

 < gou, &c. 



Van Diemen's Land ; closely allied to the Papous. 

 rThe Negroes "del Monte" of Mindanao, the 

 < Virzimbirs of Madagascar. 



7. ALFOUROUS-AUS- | The natives of Austra l ia . 

 TRALIAN. 



Subjoined is Lesson's later arrangement, in Species des Mammiferes : 



