THE HUMAN SPECIES. 279 



THE HYPERBOREAN, BEARDLESS, OR MOKGOLIC TYPE. 



From what has been stated in the foregoing pages, on the 

 two preceding extensive subtypical stems of the great family 

 of Man, our chief aim has been to produce some of the reasons 

 which, at least, seem to substantiate the conclusion, that both 

 are results of amalgamations of two, or of all the three normal 

 stocks, separated from their original centres of existence, at dif- 

 ferent epochs, part whereof may be of so remote a date that 

 they precede a portion of those great territorial dislocations 

 already pointed out, which affected both the Northern Pacific 

 as well as the equatorial and southern seas. Whether the 

 period in question synchronized with the avulsion of the plane 

 of earth which originally abutted on the western base of the 

 Cordilleras, is not now a question to be discussed in the bear- 

 ing it might have on human existence, since there are sufficient 

 evidences to show that the present tenants of the island groups 

 can mostly be traced to more recent periods ; and the traditions 

 of the northern hemisphere, in both continents, tend to prove 

 the arctic nations, of the present time, to be of comparatively 

 late expansion over their now dreary abodes. The question, 

 however, is not without some curious circumstances affecting 

 the beardless type, which we pointed out as first traceable in 

 the north-eastern flanks of the great central table-land of Asia. 

 But more attentive search seems to establish the fact, that, even 

 there, during many ages, it cannot have been the dominant 

 stock; for as on most other occasions we find the older races of 

 Man, that possessed a given country, and were obliged to yield 

 to the power of later invaders, hold to the last in the fastnesses 

 of mountain ranges, so we observe here, from the Chinese 

 annals, whole nations of Caucasians, Kinto-Moey, Yuchi, &c, 

 possessed of vast portions of Thibet and Eastern Tahtary, and 



