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and form differs materially in any count-/. Fashion may 

 have the influence of setting- up certain deformities for perfec- 

 tions, both at Pekin and at Paris, but they are invariably apol- 

 ogies which national pride offers for its own defects. The 

 youthful beauty of Canton would be handsome in London ; 

 and the Tahtar nations, in the days of their conquering career, 

 married the daughters of semi-Caucasian nomad princes, or 

 notoriously selected, for their chiefs, the same class of 

 European or Caucasian forms as they still purchase from Cir- 

 cassia and Persia, Afghanistan, Cashmere, and India.* Lud- 

 dee, the young wife of Abba Thule, chief of the Pelew Islands, 

 was handsome on the Caucasian model ; so are all the beau- 

 ties of Malay or other blood in the South Sea Islands ; the 

 most admired young females among the Arookas and the 

 Caribs. The Chippeways likewise have many beauties ; and 

 so was Harriet, the belle of Lorette Sauvage, a Huron village 

 near Quebec. In all these cases, both Europeans and natives 

 agreed. 



Human growth, according to Professor Quetelet, is not com- 

 pleted until the twenty-fifth year, at least in Belgium ; but 

 this period is supposed to be shorter in other countries; cer- 

 tainly so within the tropics, and in very warm regions, where 

 development and decay are universally allowed to be more 

 rapid. 



Weight is another element in the consideration of races, as 

 this quality materially influences physical strength, and conse- 

 quently bestows confidence, enterprise and success. An 

 instrument, the dynamometer, has been invented to measure 

 the relative scale, and they have shown savage nations to be 



* It is from these sources that the energetic innervation was principally 

 derived, which gave birth to the great Toorkce Mongole conquerors, both 

 in the west and in China. Siich, for example, was Alancona, wife of Pe- 

 souka Bahander, of the Niron Toorkee tribe of smiths ; Purtan Cciigine, 

 daughter of Conjorat Khan, the ambitious wife of Genghis, and Toora- 

 kina Catan, wife of Octai. 



