42 INTRODUCTION. 



Called, Caucasians, was a single fart : — Blummhadi had a folitary 

 Georgian skull, which happened in be the nhesl in Ins colleciion, 

 that ill' ;i Greek being tin- next ; hence it was taken as the type of 

 the skull of the higher divisions of mankind, and gave rise to the 

 term Caucasian. " Never has a single bead done more harm to 

 science than was done in the way of posthumous mischief, by the 

 bead of this well-shaped female from Georgia;" tins is the amount 

 of fact. Similar attempts have been made to conned tin' Dioscurian 

 languages with tin' Indo-European tongues; in 1645, Dr. Latham 

 announced before the British Association, from the comparison of the 

 words only, "that the closest philological affinity of the Diosc 

 languages was with the aptotic ones;" and soon after, Mr. Norriss, 

 of the Asiatic Society, i Kpri ed the same opinion, on gramm 

 grounds. As to the symmetry of Bhape and delicacy of complexion 

 of the Georgians and Circassians, bo different from tin- Mongolian, 

 the reader is reminded of the climatologic condition of the Caucasus ; 

 temperate, woo led, mountainous, and near the sea, — the very 

 reverse of the Mongol areas. " It is only amongst the chiefs 

 where the personal beauty of the male population is at all remark- 

 aide ; the tillers of the soil are. comparatively Bpeaking, coarse and 

 unshapely." 



C. — Oceanic M idte, divided into the Amphinesian* and 



Kelenonesianj stocks. 



The ocean being a medium of communication hetween races only 

 in proportion to the skill, experience and courage to use it, all 

 a priori generalizations on it, as an element of ethnographical disper- 

 sion, must be unscientific. With a few exceptions, every inhabited 

 spot of land in the Indian and Pacific Oceans is inhabited by tribes 

 of the same race, and that race Oceanic; with the exception of the 

 Peninsula of Malacca, it is not only re in the islands, but 



loxcherc on the continent. In an ethnographical distribution by 

 water, the later date we assign to it the more explicable are the phe- 

 nomena, from the more advanced state of navigation favoring the 

 dispersion ; while, in an extension by land, the earlier the migration 

 takes place, the less is the resistance of surrounding nations. 



1. The Amphinesian stock consists of two branches, the Proto- 

 nesian, and the Polynesian. 



The Protonesian branch occupies the Malayan Peninsula, 

 Sumatra, Java, Timor, Borneo, Celebes, the Moluccas, the Philip- 

 pines, &c. With respect to the Malayan Peninsula, the most 

 important fact is its being the only continental seat of any Malay 



* Amphi, around, aad nesos, island. t Kelainos, black. 



