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yellow hair and brown eyes, and the Laplanders 

 with both black. Blue eyes with yellow hair have 

 always marked the Germanic tribes. Blue eyes with 

 black or dark hair form a combination not uncommon 

 among the tribes of Koordistan, and others of the 

 Caucasian race, who inhabit elevated situations in 

 Asia. The iris is dark in all the coloured varieties, 

 but in the Negro it is so black as to be distinguished 

 with difficulty from the" pupil. 



On the varieties of the human Face and Form. 



No two persons are ever met with possessing pre- 

 cisely the same sort of features; yet there are 

 certain generally characteristic countenances be- 

 longing to the different races of mankind, and even 

 to particular nations. To enter into all the minute 

 variations would be endless, but they have been 

 reduced by Blumenbach to the five following, which 

 include all the leading traits : 



1. An oval countenance, with the features mode- 

 rately inter-distinguished ; high and broad forehead ; 

 nose aquiline, or slightly convex or prominent; 

 cheek-bones not prominent ; small mouth and lips 

 slightly curved; chin full and well rounded. This 

 face is most consonant with our ideas of beauty, 

 and is characteristic in greater or less degrees of 

 perfection of the Caucasian tribes. 



2. Broad and flattish face *; parts ill-distinguished 



* Though Cuvier has briefly specified some of these distinctions, 



we conceived a condensed view of them in this place would be 



useful, in enabling the reader the better to make such variations as 



our author has omitted. 



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