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473 



cases a darker skin^ in others a ligliter complexion^ might be 

 most favourable^ bnt many generations must pass away before 

 a combination of characters best suited to the surrounding 

 conditions would be attained. 



Coincidence of the range of the more marhed hiim^n races with 

 the great zoological provinces. — Professor Agassiz has called 

 attention to the important fact^ that each of the more marked 

 races of the human family, such as the white race, the Chinese, 

 the New Hollanders, the Malays, and the ISTegroes, is limited 



circumstance, he 

 remarks, shows most unequivocally the intimate relation 

 existing between mankind and the animal kingdom in their 

 adaptation to the physical world. The same naturalist, how- 

 ever, has scarcely laid sufficient stress on one marked excep- 

 tion to this rule, namely, that over the wdiole continent of 

 America south of the Arctic zone (or the region which is 



tribes of Eed 



to some great zoological province. 



inhabited by Esquimaux) all the numerous 



Indians have the same physical character and are of one and 



the same race."^ Dr. Morton had already declared this to be 



the case after studying the craniological characters of the 



American Indians from Canada to Patagonia. Nevertheless 



this continent comprises two of the great zoological regions 



before defined (pp. 335 

 pical. On 



Neoarctic and Neotr 



ndependent grounds Mr. Henry 



has 



arrived at tho conclusion that the Red Indian must have 

 immigrated in comparatively modern times into the hot 



regions of equatorial Amer 



Even the European^ he 



says, bears exposure to the sun or to unusually hot weather 

 quite as well as the Indians, v/liile the Negro is far better 

 suited to the same climate, for he escapes many epidemic 

 diseases incidental to hot latitudes which cause great 

 havock among the Indians. The latter, according to Mr. 

 Bates, lives as a stranger in his own country, the valley of 

 the Amazons. His constitution was not originally fitted, and 

 has not since his immigration become perfectly adapted, to 

 the climate of tropical America.f 



* Agassiz, Diversity of Origin of the 

 Human Races. 

 July 1850, 



t ^Bates, Naturalist on tlie Amazons, 



Christian Examiner, vol. ii. p. 200. 



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