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though I am hardly prepared to fix a positive limit to their number, 

 I confess, after having visited so many different parts of the globe, 

 that I am at a loss where to look for others." He enumerates 

 them in the order of their complexion, beginning with the lightest. 



A. — White. Including 1. Arabian; with nose prominent, lips 

 thin, beard abundant, and hair straight and flowing. 2. Abyssinian; 

 with a complexion hardly becoming florid, nose prominent, and hair 

 crisped. 



B. — Brown. Including, 3. Mongolian; beardless, with per- 

 fectly straight and very long hair. 1. Hottentot, with Negro 

 features, and close woolly hair, and stature diminutive. 5. Malay; 

 features not prominent in the profile ; complexion darker than in 

 preceding races, and hair Btraight and flowing. 



C. — Blackisii-Buown. Including, 6. Papuan; with features 

 not prominent in the profile, the beard abundant, skin harsh to the 

 touch, and the hair crisped or frizzled. 7. Negrillo; apparently 

 beardless ; stature diminutive, features approaching those of the 

 Negro, and the hair woolly. 8. Indian or Telingan; with feat- 

 ures approaching those of the Arabian, and the hair straight and 

 flowing. §. Ethiopian; with complexion and features intermediate 

 between those of the Telingan and Negro, and the hair crisped. 



D. — Black. — Including, 10. Australian ; witli Negro features, 

 but with straight or flowing hair. 11. Negro; with close woolly 

 hair, nose much flattened, and lips very thick. 



Maritime habits would separate the .Malay, Negrillo, and Papuan, 

 or the three island races, from the eight continental races. Six of 

 the races may be considered Asiatic, and lour African ; while the 

 eleventh, or white race, is common to both hemispheres. All races 

 exist independent of climate. Three well marked divisions of the 

 soil correspond with desert, pastoral, and agricultural communities. 

 " It is a mistake to suppose, with many, that pastoral or nomadic life 

 is a stage in the progressive improvement of society; the condition 

 is inscribed on the face of nature." 



In the Mongolian race, he thinks, the occurrence of a feminine 

 aspect in both sexes, rendering it difficult to distinguish men from 

 women, is characteristic. He was not able to make much use of 

 the oblique eye as a distinctive character, nor the " alleged absence 

 of a projecting inner angle to the lids." According to him, the 

 Mongolian race inhabits " about one half of Asia, and, with a slight 

 exception, all aboriginal America, or more than two fifths of the 

 land-surface of the globe." 



According to Mr. Coan, the stature of the southern Patagonians 

 " is nothing unusual, but it is exaggerated by their peculiar mode 

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