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ITT. " The Malay Race. It is characterized by a dark complexion, 

 varying from a tawny hue to a very dark brown. Their hair is black, 

 coarse, and lank, and their eye-lids are drawn obliquely upwards at the 

 outer angles. The mouth and lips are large, and the nose is short and 

 broad, and apparently broken at its root. The face is flat and expanded, 

 the upper jaw projecting, and the teeth salient. The skull is high and 

 squared or rounded, and the forehead low and broad. This race is active 

 and ingenious, and possesses all the habits of a migratory, predaceous 

 and maritime people." 



The subdivisions embrace — 13th. The Malay ; and 14th. 

 The Polynesian (or South Sea Island) families. 



IV. " The American Race is marked by a brown complexion, long, 

 black, lank hair, and deficient beard. The eyes are black and deep set, 

 the brow low, the cheek bones high, the nose large and aquiline, the 

 mouth large, and the lips tumid and compressed. The skull is small, 

 wide between the parietal protuberances, prominent at the vertex, and 

 flat on the occiput. In their mental character the Americans are averse 

 to cultivation, and slow in acquiring knowledge ; restless, revengeful, and 

 fond of war, and wholly destitute of maritime adventure." 



The families into which this race is subdivided, are two : 15th. 

 The American ; and 16th. The Tollecan. 



V. " The Ethiopian Race is characterized by a black complexion, 

 and black, woolly hair ; the eyes are large and prominent, the nose broad 

 and flat, lips thick, and the mouth wide ; the head long and narrow, the 

 forehead low, the cheek bones prominent, the jaws projecting, and the 

 chin small. In disposition, the negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; 

 while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diver- 

 sity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade 

 of humanity. 



This race is divided into — 17th. The Negro; 18th. The 

 Caffrarian; 19th. The Hottentoi ; 20th. The Oceanic Negro; 

 21st. The Austirdicm ; and 22d. The Alforian families. The 

 latter family is most numerous in New Guinea, the Moluccas 

 and Magindano. 



The map which precedes the work, shows the geographical 

 distribution of the live races of men ; and the lines of demarca- 

 tion are those indicated by Professor Blumenbach, as separating 

 the different races in the primitive epochs of the world. These 

 divisions, of necessity, are only approximations to truth. The 

 boundary between the Caucasian and Mongolian races is ex- 



