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inches. It will be an interesting object of consideration for 

 anatomists, who may be placed in favorable conditions for 

 observation, to examine the brain of children belonging to these 

 races in the foetus, and particularly after birth, as it may be 

 expected to display a still more imperfect state than that of a 

 Negro infant. 



The foregoing discussions have chiefly had for object, to 

 offer some points relating to the physical history of man, 

 which, it appears, have not as yet been viewed in the light 

 here shown ; perhaps, because the facts relating to them are 

 uninteresting and few, or are concealed under a dense veil of 

 tradition and figurative mystification, with only occasional 

 glimpses that can be appreciated, and therefore difficult to 

 grasp, and uncertain in the application ; still, when collected 

 into somewhat of a series, give consistency to conjecture, and 

 frequently bestow upon it most, if not all, the conditions of his- 

 torical truth. As we proceed, names of nations and tribes 

 above indicated among the unassignable in the family cogna- 

 tions of man, may again appear with more detail, clothed in 

 the form they seem to have passed into, and become known 

 and well-defined races. 

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