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but standing alone it has not a decidedly marked influence. 

 But in spite of that striking difference in form which we 

 meet with in several regions of the earth, each of the chief 

 forms which comes in contact with another becomes mingled with 

 it by a series of gradations, each bearing a peculiar local stamp, 

 just as we might expect from the peculiar external and internal 

 conditions in which these individual tribes live. The Finnish 

 peoples are, as regards the corporeal form, such an intermediate 

 link between the Mongolian and Caucasian races, just as the 

 Hindoos have been considered as intermediate between the 

 former and the Malay race. The Tchuktchi and Korjaks, the 

 Esquimaux and some West American nations, whose cranial 

 form approaches the Mongolian, stand between Asiatics and 

 Americans, and the Esquimaux themselves (who, on the Atlantic 

 are easily distinguished from the American Indians), are gradu- 

 ally mingled with them on the coast of the Pacific. Botocudes 

 felt so surprised at the sight of the Chinese that, from their re- 

 semblance to them, they called them their uncles. 1 From the 

 Mongols and the Tunguses to the Samoiedes 2 there is a natural 

 transition in respect to language and physical and geographical 

 relation ; and this is also the case from the Samoiedes to the 

 Amos, and from these to the Esquimaux. 



That a definite limitation of some chief forms cannot be 

 maintained, is moreover shown by the fact that some peoples, 

 though very remote from each other and manifestly uncon- 

 nected, present great resemblances. The Californians greatly 

 resemble the Negroes of Guinea, New Guinea, and the New 

 Hebrides, in shape of head and face, their hair, however, is 

 not woolly. All travellers are struck with the slight external 

 differences existing between Europeans and the Marquesas 

 islanders. The head of the Tahitian might be taken for Eu- 

 ropean were it not for the wide nostrils and large lips. 3 Some 

 New Zealanders have perfectly European skulls, whilst the 

 features approach those of the North American Indians (Dieffen- 



3h). The Hottentots, on account of their colour, shape of 



1 Hollard, p. 197, after St. Hilaire. 



2 Neumann in A. Wagner, "Gesch. d. Urwelt," p. 311, 1845. 



3 Lesson, in " Complement des ODUV. de Buffon," ii, p. 206. 



