THE PRINCIPAL BRANCHES OF THE HUMAN RACE. 



venient designation of Turanian. That term will serve the purpose of a 

 general appellation for all the races of men who inhabit the region 

 northward of the Oxus and Imaus ; and who display, more or less, the 

 same physical character with the Mongoles and Calmucs, and yet can 

 by no means be identified or connected with them by any proofs of 

 natural affinity. The name Turanian, but for the error of modern 

 writers, who have confounded the real Scythians with the Goths and 

 the Sclavonians, and even with the Celts, might be interchanged with 

 Scythian." It would appear, however, that the nomadic Scythian and 

 Tartar tribes, some of which are evidently of a mixed race, interme- 

 diate between the Sclavonic, or the Tartaric branches of the Japetic, 

 and the Mongole stock (see Blumenbach, Dec. xiiL, skull of a Kirguise*), 

 are really to be referred to the former. 



The following tabular arrangement of the main stems and primary 

 branches of the human race, as it appears upon careful investigation to be 

 resolvable, is submitted by the author of this work. It cannot be ex- 

 pected that the views it embodies will coincide, in every point, with those 

 of others who have entered into this perplexing department of natural 

 history ; nevertheless, it is from such as know the mass of difficulties 

 which environ the subject, that the most allowance may be expected. 



r Of this branch, various nations, 

 speaking different dialects of 

 the same tongue , were spread 

 over Gaul, Lower Germany, 

 Italy, Spain, and the British 

 Islands. 



Greeks, Romans, and their co- 

 lonies. 



r Various nations of this branch, 

 under the names of Goths, 

 Vandals, Allemanni, Franks, 

 Germans, Angles, &c., occu- 

 pied the north-western re- 

 gions of Europe. 

 /Russians, Poles, Croats, Bohe- 

 mians, Bulgarians, and Cos- 



1 sacks. 



_ Ancient Scythians, Parthians, 



I Tartars, Kirguises, Ousbecks, 



I &C \ 



Georgians, Circassians, Min- 



{ grelians. 



Arabs, Hebrews, Assyrians, 

 { Chaldeans, Phoenicians, &c. 



Hindoo nations. 



r Ancient Egyptians and Ethio- 

 J pians, Abyssinians, Berber 

 | tribes of Atlantica, Guanches 

 l_ of Canary Islands. 



I. JAPETIC STOCK. 



Head oval ; forehead 

 open ; nose prominent ; 

 cheek-bones either not pro- 

 jecting, or but slightly so, 

 the zygomatic arches being 

 moderately compressed ; 

 ears small and close ; teeth 

 vertical in their direction; 

 jaws moderate, with a well- 

 formed chin ; hair long, 

 flowing, sometimes crisp, 

 never woolly ; beard mostly 

 full ; colour variable. 



The Japetic, Caucasian, 

 or Iranian section of dif- 

 ferent authors, the Celto- 

 Scyth-Arabs of Desmou- 

 lins. 



EUROPEAN.., 



Celtic. 



Pelasgie. 



Teutonic. 



Sclavonic. 



f Tartaric. 



ASIATIC. < Caucasic. 

 Semitic. 

 L Sanscritic. 



AFRICAN. Mizraimic. 



* See, also, Dec. iv., the skull of a Don Cossack: " Habitus in totum horridus." 



