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resemble the other. This is the case with the natives of Australia, 

 who, resembling the one class in most if not all other things and 

 in mental and social condition, have the wavy hair, full beard, and 

 sharp sight of the other — where shall they be classed ? They have 

 no history or traditions, have never cultivated food-crops, clothed 

 themselves, or had permanent dwellings, and it is questioned 

 whether they knew the use of fire. Their appearance is analogous 

 to many races of animals and plants found on islands, similar to 

 those found on far off continents, yet specifically distinct, from 

 which long isolation is inferred. This seems, by its fossils, to be 

 true of the animals, and may well be true of the men of Australia. 

 They are also the only people, apparently, of the southern class 

 who have lived for ages in a temperate climate, and also who have 

 hair but slightly curled. Some writers derive them from the Non- 

 Aryan tribes of India, but as these are cultured — they all cultivate 

 food-crops, have dwellings, clothe themselves, and use fire, arts 

 that could not well be lost — and as emigrants usually take purpose 

 and knowledge with them, it seems that any such recent resem- 

 blances would be more reasonably accounted for by reversing the 

 course of the hypothetical migration. 



Resemblances in language must be cautiously used in tracing 

 relationship, as will be seen in the known origin of the so called 

 Latin Nations of Europe. 



While upon such separation as has been suggested, one portion 

 went in one direction and the other in another, each would be 

 soon modified by changed conditions, and would divide into clans, 

 tribes, nations, and races ; each class retaining the common as well 

 as class characteristics. No special reference is made to American 

 ethnology, for whether its pre-historic races are of single, or as is 

 likely, of three-fold origin, they are all referred to northern 

 sources. 



The earlier relics of our kind show indices of the same grade of 

 culture ; so the farther back we go in the line of descent the more 

 likenesses are found in people who seem widely separated in habita- 



