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Desmoulins' sections are as follow : 



1. Celto-Scyth- Arabs. 



2. Mongoles. 



3. Ethiopians. 



4. Euro-Africans. 



5. Austro- Africans. 



7. Papous. 



8. Negro-Oceanians. 



9. Australasians. 



10. Columbians. 



11. Americans. 



6. Malays, or Oceanians. 



M. Bory de St. Vincent adopts a series of divisions closely approxi- 

 mating to those of Desmoulins : 



RACES WITH SMOOTH STRAIGHT HAIR, PECULIAR TO THE OLDER 

 CONTINENTS. 



I. JAPETIC STOCK HOMO JAPETICUS.* The original seat of this stock is in the moun- 



tain chains which ramify nearly parallel to the 45th degree north. 



Variety i. Gens togata. Dress, from the earliest time, loose and flowing. The women 

 generally regarded as the slaves of man. Baldness, from age, generally beginning 

 on the forehead. 



Ramifications: 1. Caucasian, or western race. (Mingrelians, Circassians, Georgians, by 

 intermixtures with whom the Turks, the Persians, and the Hindoos of Cash- 

 mere have become improved.) 

 Ramifications : 2. Pelasgic race. (The ancient Greeks and Romans, together with their 



colonies.) 

 Variety n. Gens braccata. Dress close. The women regarded as equals, or often as 



superiors. The head becoming bald, from age, generally on the vertex. 

 Ramifications : 1. Celtic race. (Gauls, ancient British, &c.) 

 Ramifications : 2. Germanic race. (Sub-variety 1. Teutonic. 2. Sclavonic.) 



II. ARABIAN STOCK HOMO ARABICUS. The men of this stock generally of tall stature; 



on the contrary, the women small and slender. 

 Variety i. Atlantic race. (The ancient Egyptians, and the people of Atlantica, North 



Africa.) 

 Variety u. Adamicrace. (Hebrews, and other Syrian nations.) 



III. HINDOO STOCK HOMO INDICUS. 



IV. SCYTHIC STOCK HOMO SCYTHICUS. The Tartar nations of Bucharia, Daouria, and 



of the country from the eastern shores of the Caspian to the Sea of Japan and Okok- 

 hokts. Cheek-bones prominent ; eyes small, and deeply set, and separated from each 

 other to a great distance ; eyelids thick ; eyebrows bushy ; nose flattened, and ren- 

 dered apparent only by the nostrils ; chin pointed. 



V. CHINESE STOCK HOMO SINICUS. Not to be confounded with the preceding ; original 



seat, the Thibet mountains ; and separated from the Scythic nations by the vast deserts 

 of Gobi and Shamo. 



VI. HYPERBOREAN STOCK HOMO HYPERBOREUS. Laplanders, Samoiedes, &c. 



VII. NEPTUNIAN STOCK HOMO NEPTUNIANUS. 

 Variety I. Malays. 



Variety n. Oceanic nations (New Zealanders, &c). 



Variety in. Hybrid Papuan race, between the Neptunian stock and the Melanian. 



VIII. AUSTRALASIAN STOCK HOMO AUSTRALASICUS. Natives of Australia, &c. 



PECULIAR TO THE NEW WORLD. 



IX. COLUMBIAN STOCK HOMO COLUMBICUS. Inhabitants of the plains of the St. 



Lawrence to the 45th degree, of the eastern borders of Mexico, the Antilles, Terra 

 Firma, Guiana, and the territory of Cumana. To this stock belong also the Cana- 

 dians, the natives of Jucatan and Honduras, the Caribs, and the Galibis. 



* Japeticus, not in allusion to Japhet, the son of Noah, but to. Japetus (audax Japeti genus. Horace), 

 whom the ancient classics regarded as the progenitor of the race inhabiting the western regions of the 

 world. 



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