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of Europe, including the Lapps, * * * and lastly, in America, 

 the Greenlanders and the Esquimaux, for I see in these people a 

 wonderful difference from the other inhabitants of America ; and, 

 unless I am altogether deceived, I think they must be derived from 

 (lie Finns." 



But in his " Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte," 2d ed.. Gottingen, 

 1806. Blumenbach classes both the Lapps and the Eskimo with the 

 Mongolians (Anthr. Treatises of Blumenbach, Lond.. 1865. p. 304) : 

 '• The remaining Asiatics, except the Malays, with the Lapps in 

 Europe, and the Esquimaux in the north of America, from Bering 

 Strait to Labrador and Greenland. They are for the most part of 

 a wheaten yellow, with scanty, straight, black hair, and have flat 

 faces with laterally projecting cheek bones, and narrowly slit 

 eyelids." 



Von Wrangell, 1839 : 50 "* * * ihre sclavische Abhangigkeit 

 von den Rennthier-Tschuktschen beweist, class die letztern spiitere 

 Einwanderer unci Eroberer des Landes sind, welches sie jetzt inne 

 haben." 



Lawrence, 1822 : 51 " The Mongolian variety * * * includes the 

 numerous more or less rude, and in great part nomadic tribes, which 

 occupy central and northern Asia; * * * and the tribes of Eski- 

 maux extending over the northern parts of America, from Bering 

 Strait to the extremity of Greenland. * * *. 



" The Eskimaux are formed on the Mongolian model, although 

 they inhabit countries so different from the abodes of the original 

 tribes of central Asia." 



Latham, 1850 : 52 " Our only choice lies between the doctrine that 

 makes the American nations to have originated from one or more 

 separate pairs of progenitors, and the doctrine that either Bering 

 Strait or the line of islands between Kamskatka and the Peninsula 

 of Alaska, was the highway between the two worlds — from Asia to 

 America, or vice versa. * * * Against America, and in favor of 

 Asia being the birthplace of the human race — its unity being as- 

 sumed — I know many valid reasons. * * * Physically, the 

 Eskimo is a Mongol and Asiatic. Philologically, he is American." 



1851 : r ' 3 " Just as the Eskimo graduate in the American Indian, so 

 do they pass into the populations of northeastern Asia — language 

 heing the instrument which the present writer has more especially 



r " Von Wrangell, in Baer and Helmersen's " Beitrage zur Kenntniss des Russischen 

 Reiches," pp. 58-59. St. Petersburg, 1839. 



51 Lawrence, W., Lectures on physiology, zoology, and the natural history of man, 

 pp. 511-513. London, 1822. 



B Latham, Robert Gordon, The Natural history of the varieties of man, pp. 289-291. 

 London, 1850. 



"Latham, Robert Gordon, Man and his migrations, p. 124. London, 1851. 



