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man have evidently proceeded eccentrically from the vicinity 

 of the table land of I i i, bo far as the proceeding ran he 



traced by geographical necessities, which in most cases have 

 operated like positive laws, and are corroborated by history 

 when human Bcripta have recorded the facta. Let as now 

 how the same conditions of Alan's primeval swarming ran be 

 traced in the greal Caucasian type, of which the eventful 

 career is so much better known than that of the preceding 

 races. 



THE BEARDED, INTERMEDIATE, OB CAUCASIAN TYPE, 



Is so named, because neither of the two other typical 

 forms is distinguished by a well-grown beard. Intermediate 

 form is applicable with reference to the boreal and tropical 

 position of the other types. The appellation of Caucasian 

 remains likewise appropriate, when understood to apply to the 

 Indian or true Caucasus, or Imaus of the ancients, for by these 

 names the region of Hindu-Koosh and the vicinity must be 

 understood; and it is to that locality careful examination ulti- 

 mately traces the first habitation of at least the white races of 

 the bearded stock ;# for the term white, though it is in general 

 sufficiently correct, is still not quite admissible for the whole, 

 since the color varies from pure white down to melanism 

 nearly as deep as a genuine Negro. Albinism is frequent ; 



* Caucasus of Western Asia is a name transferred with many others 

 from the centrsl region of the a d continent. It seems to be derived from 

 Koh-Cas, or Hindu-Koh, and includes, besides that region, also Paropa- 

 missus, Emodus Imaus, or Western Himalaya, with numerous and 

 elevated peaks, and the high lands of the Arii or Asii. Kohi-Baba, the 

 apparently highest point of the whole, appears to be the local Kaf of 

 Arabian tradition. 



