218 BIMANA. 



X. AMERICAN STOCK HOMO AMERICANUS. The inhabitants of the upper plains of the 



Orinoco, those of the Amazon, Brazil, Paraguay, and the innermost territories of Chili. 



XI. PATAGONIAN STOCK HOMO PATAGONUS. Natives of Patagonia. 



CRISP-HAIRED RACES. 



NATIONS COMMONLY TERMED NEGROES. 



XII. ETHIOPIAN STOCK HOMO JTHIOPICUS. Negro, or black races of Central Africa. 



XIII. CAFFRE STOCK HOMO GAFFER. Caffre tribes of South Africa. 



XIV. MELANIAN STOCK HOMO MELANINUS. Natives of Madagascar, New Guinea, the 

 Fejee Islands, Van Diemen's Land, &c. 



XV. HOTTENTOT STOCK HOMO HOTTENTOTTUS, Hottentot and Bushman tribes of 



South Africa. 



Dr. Prichard, whose work, entitled Researches into the Physical 

 History of Mankind, is replete with learning, and evidences the indefa- 

 tigable industry of its author, considers mankind as referable to seven 

 primary stocks, or classes. He observes that, from a comparison of the 

 principal varieties of form and structure presented by the inhabitants 

 of different countries, seven classes of nations appear to be distinctly 

 separable from each other, and to exhibit strongly-marked characters 

 of distinction : among these, the principal, but by no means the only 

 characteristics claiming attention, are peculiar forms of the skull. The 

 seven principal classes, thus established, he considers to be first, those 

 nations which, in the form of their skulls and other physical traits, re- 

 semble Europeans, including many nations in Asia, and some in Africa ; 

 secondly, races nearly similar in figure and in the shape of the head to 

 the Calmucs, Mongoles, and Chinese ; thirdly, the native American 

 nations, excluding the Esquimaux, and some tribes who resemble them 

 more than the majority of the inhabitants of the New World; fourthly, 

 the Hottentot and Bushman race ; fifthly, the Negroes ; sixthly, the 

 Papuas, or woolly-haired nations of Polynesia ; and, seventhly, the 

 Alfourou and Australian races. The two first classes he respectively 

 terms Iranian and Turanian, instead of Caucasian and Mongolian. Sir W. 

 Jones has shewn it to be extremely probable that the region of Upper Asia, 

 termed Iran, was the primitive seat of those families or nations who 

 have most extensively spread the same type and features ; and hence, Dr. 

 Prichard has adopted the term Iranian (instead of Caucasian), as their 

 general appellation. Turan corresponds with Scythia.* " The Scythians," 

 says Dr. Prichard, " were the nations of the north beyond Mount Imaus, 

 of whom some branches, at an earlier period, had reached the neighbour- 

 hood of Colchis. There is enough to identify them with the class of nations 

 which may be comprised under the indefinite, and, therefore, more con- 



* " The long and memorable quarrel of Iran and Touran is still the theme of history or romance : 

 the famous, perhaps the fabulous, valour of the Persian heroes, Rustan and Asfendiar, was sig- 

 nalized in the defence of their country against the Afrasiabs of the north ; and the invincible 

 spirit of the same barbarians resisted, on the same ground, the victorious arms of Cyrus and Alex- 

 ander. When Darius advanced into the Moldavian Desert, between the Danube and the Neister, the 

 King of the Scythians sent him a mouse, a frog,> bird, and five arrows a tremendous allegory I" Gibbon. 



