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are compared with those of the Athiutic slope, there is a manifest dis- 

 similarity. Commencing with Nicaragua and moving northward on the 

 Pacific side, we see a gradual shading of one type or series of ty^jes into 

 another until we reach the Alaskan region. What is particularly 

 worthy of notice in this survey is, that at points widely apart a char- 

 acteristic which has faded out iu the intermediate area reappears in a 

 modified form. There seems, however, to be evidence of an intrusive 

 element in the region of California, as the types here differ from those 

 north and south. 



Dr. Brinton, in his late wcfrk "The American Race," arranges the 

 various stocks of North America into three groups, which he names 

 "The North Atlantic Group," "The North Pacific Group," and "The 

 Central Group." The primary archeological groups, however, so far as 

 the data enable us to judge, keeping iu mind the facts above stated, 

 may be in part provisionally defined as follows : 



1. The Isthmian section, including Costa Rica and the isthmus south- 

 ward, which should be arranged with the South American groujis, as 

 the types of its antiquities ally them with those of that continent. 



2. The Mexican and Central American section, including most of 

 Mexico and the Central American states southward to Costa Rica. 

 This section is less homogeneous as regards its types of works than 

 the "Mound-builders" district, and in fact embraces two or more toler- 

 ably well marked subsections or rather classes of types. One is con- 

 fined chiefly to Nicaragua, the others extend over the remainder of the 

 section, which reaches northward to Chihuahua. 



3. The Pueblo or Intermontane section, embracing New Mexico, Ari- 

 zona, portions of Nevada, Utah and Colorado, and the extreme north- 

 ern part of IMexico; in other words, the area between the Rocky and 

 Sierra Nevada mountains from the latitude of Salt Lake southward 

 to Chihuahua. The distinguishing characteristics of this area are well 

 marked, and the section is, archeologically, quite homogeneous, the 

 types being few and not widely variant. Its closest relation is evi- 

 dently with the Mexican section. 



4. The California section. Our knowledge of the antiquities of the 

 Pacific slope north of the Pueblo section is not sufficient to indicate 

 the archeological districts with any degree of certainty. The most that 

 can be said is that the remains in the region of California present fea- 

 tures which seem to separate them from those south as well as north, 

 but how far northward these peculiar features reach we have no means 

 of judging. That the ancient remains of Alaska form a class marking 

 this region as another section, may be taken for granted. I am strongly 

 inclined, however, to believe that when the antiquities of the region 

 lying between the main body of this territory and California have been 

 carefully examined, it will be found that there are one or two more well 

 marked archeological districts. The works of art, for instance, of the 

 region occupied by the Haida Indians and the congeneric tribes, pre- 



