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ears, and it appears to be of the same pile as the hair of the 

 head. The nose is small, somewhat pointed, and the mouth 

 well-formed. In the Nogai race the nose is, however, round, 

 flattened, and dilated, the cheek-bones still more prominent, 

 the lips are tumid, and the eyes almost reduced to linear open- 

 ings ; while the black Kalmucks have the obliquity of the lids 

 still greater, so that their external angles seem to be almost 

 forty-five degrees above horizontal. All the true beardless 

 nations are olivaceous in color, the skin varying from a 

 kind of sallow lemon-peel, through various shades of greater 

 depth; but it is never entirely fair, nor intensely swarthy; 

 although, in the adulterated races that occupy the Himalaya 

 range, slight appearances of blush may be discerned among 

 young people ; and the black Kalmucks, from some other unex- 

 plained cause, are of an ashy darkness, not far remote from the 

 true Papua color. The typical nations are all square of body, 

 in stature rather low, the trunk long, the extremities seldom or 

 never lengthened, and the wrists and ankles are weak.* 



These characteristics of the Hyperborean type retain such 

 uniformity, that the American races are in most particulars, as 

 we have already shown, but little aberrant, and the Malay, 

 Indo-Chinese, &c, continue to bear them, in the exact propor- 

 tion of their commixture with other aberrants, and of the influ- 

 ences generated by local circumstances. In the same ratio we 

 also find the physical structure to harmonize with the intellec- 

 tual qualities. The Hyperborean evinces a feebler innervation 

 than the other typical forms of Man ; he is less under amatory 

 influences, less prolific, less enduring in toil; hence more dis- 



* Where the gland is visible, the eye horizontal, and the beard spreads 

 up to the sides of the ears, there is certainly a mixed descent. It is most 

 common, perhaps solely observed, among natives of the northern prov- 

 inces beyond the wall. No doubt the superior energy and capacity they 

 evince is the cause why they are everywhere in office, and that so many 

 portraits, thus characterized, occur in the Chinese Museum now exhibit- 

 ing in London. 



