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the Great); geometricians; and in particular, poets of lasting 

 reputation. 



THE TYPICAL CAUCASIAN-. 



We now come to the typical Caucasian family, which em- 

 braces the greatest celebral development in width and depth, 

 combined with the highest form of beauty, Strength, and 

 power of endurance, coupled with a nervous system less 

 swayed by impulse. In this group are found the most per- 

 fect notions of the Ideal beautiful, of relative proportion in 

 art and in literature, of logic and of the mathematical sci- 

 ences in general. The skull, though somewhat lower in the 

 dome, is broader in proportion than the Arab and the Hebrew, 

 more developed at the forehead, making that line more con- 

 tinuously vertical down the nose, which, in the finer specimens, 

 is not aquiline, but straight. The complexion is clear brown, 

 with mostly dark-brown hair, passing to auburn, generally 

 straight, the beard full, the chest ample and deep, the loins 

 small, the gait erect, and the tread martial. It is here that 

 female beauty is possessed of the highest human loveliness, 

 grace, and delicacy; and the manly character attains the most 

 majestic and venerable aspect. 



The primeval focus of the family is traced up to the high- 

 est glens of Hindu-Koosh, the real Imaus and Caucasus of 

 antiquity. In that region, or possibly still higher, in the most 

 elevated portion of ancient Turan, the Cassio-regio of Thibet, 

 Cassar, or Cashgar of Marco Polo, it is that we must place the 

 primeval point of departure; for there, in a verdant fruitful 

 region, a Behesh, or Paradise, according to Iranian nations, 

 is placed Ardukcnd, Ordukend, still more anciently Arthur- 

 keind, and now known as Behetseh Keng or Keind. It has 

 still ruins of arched avenues, the work of ancient kings, and 

 the locality is on the caravan road, on the north side of the 

 plateau of Pamere, eastward, going by Cashgar to China ; and 



