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1 8 THE HISTORY OF CREATION. 



hair is stiff and black • the colour of their skin is of a 

 light or dark brown tinge, sometimes more inclined to 

 white or to yellow, like that of the Mongols, sometimes 

 more to red, like that of the Americans. The languages of 

 Polar men are as yet little known, but they differ both 

 from the Mongolian and from the American. Polar men 

 must probably be regarded as a remnant and a peculiarly 

 adapted branch of that tribe of Mongols which emigrated 

 from north-eastern Asia to North America, and populated 

 that part of the earth. 



At the time of the discovery of America, that part of 

 the earth was peopled (setting aside the Esquimaux) only 

 by a single human species, namely, by the Redskins, or 

 Americans (Homo Amerieanus). Of all other human spe- 

 cies they are most closely related to the two jDreceding. 

 The form of their skull is generally a medium one, rarely 

 short or long-headed. Their forehead broad and very low; 

 their nose large, prominent, and frequently aquiline ; their 

 cheek-bones prominent ; their Hps rather thin than thick. 

 The colour of their skin is characterised by a red funda- 

 mental tint, which is, however, sometimes pure copper- 

 red, or light red, sometimes a deeper reddish brown, yellow 

 brown or olive brown. The numerous languages of the 

 various American races and tribes are extremely different, 

 yet they agree in their original foundation. Probably 

 America was first peopled from north-eastern Asia by 

 the same tribe of Mongols from whom the Polar men 

 (Hyperboreans and Esquimaux) have also branched. This 

 tribe first spread in North America, and from thence 

 migrated over the isthmus of Central America down to 

 South America, at the extreme south of which the species 



