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is apparently the work of the Phoenicians. The Arahs have ever 

 been celebrated for their zeal in the diffusion of knowledge, though 

 the amount of originality among them is by no means ascertained. 



He thinks all the alphabets that have ever heen used are referable 

 to a single prototype, and that Semitic. 



In order to account for the difference of tribes under the same lat- 

 itude, he lays stress upon the accumulation of climatologic influ- 

 ences, and the angle of migration ; which he illustrates by supposed 

 migrations through a single zone, and through many rapidly passed 

 zones ; in the former case the climatologic influences would be 

 lccumulated much more than in the latter. 



The Japetidae he divides into — 



A. — Occidental Japetidae. 



B. — Indo-Germanic Japetidae. 



The first consists of the Celts and their branches. The second 

 falls into two classes, the European, and the Iranian Indo-Germans ; 

 the former including the Gothic Sarmatian, and Mediterranean na- 

 tions ; the latter, the populations of Kurdistan, Persia, Beloochistan, 

 Affghanistan, and Kafferistan, — tribes descended from the speakers 

 of the Sanscrit languages (in the present state of our inquiry, dead 

 languages). 



Cuvier divides man into three stocks, Caucasian, Mongole or 

 Altaic, and Negro ; he refers the American to the Mongolian 

 stock. 



Fischer divides man into Homo Japcticus ; II. Neptunianus ; H. 

 Scythicus (Mongols) ; II. Americanos (Patagonians) ; II. Columbi- 

 cus (Americans) ; II. Ethiopicus ; and II. Polynesius. 



Lesson divides man into the White Race ; Dusky Race, including 

 Hindoos, Caflrarians, Papuans, and Australians ; Orange-colored 

 Race, the Malay ; Yellow Race, the Mongolian, Oceanic and South 

 American ; Red Race, the Caribs, and North Americans ; and the 

 Black Race.' 



, Dumeril proposes the divisions, Caucasian, Hyperborean, Mon- 

 gole, American, Malay, and Ethiopian. 



Virev divides man into two species : the first, with facial angle of 

 85° to 90°, including the white race, (Caucasian,) the yellow race, 

 (Mongolian,) and the copper-colored race (American) ; the second, 

 with facial angle 75° to 82°, including the dark brown race, (Malay,) 

 the black race, and the lackish race (Hottentots and Papuas). 



Desmoulins' sections are Celto-Scyth-Arabs ; Mongoles ; Ethio- 



