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a distinct origin. There cannot be, however, a doubt that in 

 the Mulatto state, or half-bred Caucasians, that peculiar struc- 

 ture of the skin must be in part remaining, since, in the charac- 

 ter of the hair, we find it in proportion of the bearded parentage; 

 the frizzled and mop-like character passes into spiral curls, 

 then undulates, and, at las., is wholly straight, while, in 

 descending the scale, the mop becomes crisp, and returns to 

 that low state of humanity, which, in the warm regions of the 

 east, was branded with the reproach of being accursed. From 

 this imputation, indeed, the more physically elevated real 

 Ethiopians were not exempted. In the Sacred Scriptures, 

 with perhaps some exceptions, Chna and Egypt were so 

 branded to the promulgation of the Christian dispensation. 

 The hatred incurred by the race of Cham or Ham was, indeed, 

 repeated in the north, by the same pure Caucasian stock, 

 towards the Hyperborean, if we may take the earliest Finnic 

 Tschutski to have been the first miners, and, perhaps, the 

 Tubal Cain of the Pentateuch ; for obloquy pursued both, 

 although for ages they were mixed races, and long the deposi- 

 tories of the dawnings of civilization, though not the first to 

 organize human progress. 



Races of mixed Caucasians, afterwards known as Joktanites, 

 Indo-Arabs, and Semitics, descended the west bank of the 

 Indus, and, from the remotest period, secured the whole Sulei- 

 manic range, and at this time already fixed upon the culmi- 

 nating point of Takt-y-Suleiman, or, rather, Arawati, the 

 mountain of the dove, or the ship, for their first remove of the 

 Arkite reminiscence from its original centre.* They left the 

 purer Papuas scattered westward, or drove them onward till 

 one of its tribes constituted the Negro races, with a taint of the 



* The Arawati and Aryawart mountains are, perhaps, higher up in 

 Asia, and the real locality of the diluvian record. But the Parveti Mon- 

 tes of Ptolemy, so named from the Sanscrit Parvat, a dove, is Suleiman 

 Koh, 12,831 feet high, still noted for the abundance of different species 

 of doves. 



