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BIMANA. 



II. NEPTUNIAN STOCK. 



Head rounded, sometimes compressed at 

 the sides ; face sub-oval, with prominent 

 cheek-bones and zygomatic arches; eyes 

 more distant from each other than in the 

 Japetic stock, and more elevated at the 

 temporal angle ; iris black ; mouth mode- 

 rate, with a violet tint internally; teeth 

 erect; hair long, straight, black; beard 

 scanty, somewhat rigid; limbs well formed; 

 soles of the feet small ; colour tawny, or ^ 

 yellowish brown. 



III. MONGOLE STOCK. 



Head large, elevated at the vertex ; face 

 flat, broad; the male malar bones and the 

 zygomatic arches boldly prominent and re- 

 markably large ; eyes small, narrow, ob- 

 lique; eyelids tumid; eyebrows arched; 

 nose depressed, with patulous nostrils; chin 

 nearly beardless ; the hairs of the head ri- 

 gid, straight, black ; ears large and spread- 

 ing; mouth wide; teeth erect; colour yel- 

 lowish brown. 



IV. PROGNATHOUS STOCK.* 



Jaws large, prominent ; the alveolar ridge 

 standing obliquely forward, and giving an 

 oblique direction to the incisor teeth ; fore- 

 head narrow; head laterally compressed; 

 cheeks and zygomatic arches prominent ; " 

 lips tumid; nose more or less depressed, 

 with spreading nostrils ; hair, for the most 

 part, woolly and plicated, sometimes crisp, 

 sometimes harsh and long ; beard usually 

 scanty, stiff ; colour fluctuating /rom deep 

 black to yellowish brown. 



MALAYS 

 PROPER. 



POLYNE- 

 SIANS. 



MONGOLE. 



HYPERBO- 

 REAN. 



AFRO- 

 NEGRO. 



HOTTENTOT. 



PAPUAN. 



ALFOUROU. 



V. OCCIDENTAL STOCK. 



Forehead flattened ; the vertex mode- 

 rately elevated (except when depressed by 

 art) ; cheek-bones and zygomatic arches 

 roundly prominent; eyes linear, usually 

 oblique ; nose moderately elevated, some- 

 times depressed, with spreading nostrils ; < 

 mouth large ; alveolar margin of the jaws 

 slightly oblique; hair long, rigid, black; 

 beard very scanty ; colour variable, dusky- 

 yellow, or coppery. The characters not 

 constant, or developed to the same degree 

 in every tribe. 



* The term, Prognathous, is adopted from Dr. Prichard, as typically characteristic of this stock of the 

 human family, of which the Papous and the Alfourous are regarded as a branch. The genuine Negro 

 characters are restricted to a small offset. 



r COLUMBIAN. 



SOUTH 

 AMERICAN. 



r Natives of the Malay Peninsula, 



and occupants of the coasts of 



\ the islands of the Indian 



Archipelago. 

 * Hovas of Madagascar. 



I New Zealanders. 

 Sandwich Islanders. 

 Society Islanders, &c. 

 Perhaps, also, the settlers who 

 founded the Peruvian and 

 Mexican empires. 



Mongole Tartars. 

 Mantchoux. 

 Calmucs. 

 Chinese. 

 Coreans. 



Japanese, and natives of Thibet, 

 Boutan, Ava, Pegu, Siam, &c. 

 C Ostiaks. 



Tongouse. 

 I Samoiedes. 

 j Tschutski. 

 I Laplanders. 

 v. Esquimaux, &C. 

 r Negro and the African varieties, 

 I with more or less of the Negro 

 j characters. 

 I Caffres. 

 C Namaquas. 

 J Koras. 

 j Gon aquas. 

 I Saabs. 



Woolly-haired black tribes of 

 New Guinea, Fejee Island, 

 Van Diemen's Land, Mada- 

 gascar, termed Papous, &c. 

 r Straight or 'crisp-haired black 

 I tribes of New Guinea, and va- 

 S rious Islands of IndianArchi- 

 pelago, New Hollanders, and 

 Virzimbirs of Madagascar. 

 r North American Indians. 

 I Indigenes of Mexico. 

 \ Florida, and the Carribean Is- 

 lands of Yutacan and Colum- 

 bia, to the equator. 

 Indigenes of the banks of the 

 Amazon, and of the upper 

 sources of the Orinoco ; of 

 Brazil, Paraguay, the inte- 

 rior of Chili ; including the 

 Atures, the Ottomaques, the 

 Botacudos, &c. 



IPATAGONIAN. / The gigantic race of Patago- 

 >- ma. 



