6 VARIETIES OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. 



8. The Mongol-Tartar Family. 



9. The Turkish Family. 



10. The Chinese Family. 



11. The Indo-Chinese Family. 



12. The Polar Family. 



HI. THE MALAY RACE. 



The Malay Race is characterised by a dark complexion, varying from a 

 tawny hue to a very dark brow^n. Their hair is black, coarse and lank, and their 

 eye-lids draw^n obliquely upw^ards at the outer angles. The mouth and lips are 

 large, and the nose is short and broad, and apparently broken at its root. The 

 face is flat and expanded, the upper jaw projecting, and the teeth salient. The 

 skull is high and squared or rounded, and the forehead low and broad. This race 

 is active and ingenious, and possesses all the habits of a migratory, predaceous and 

 maritime people. 



13. The Malay Family. 



14. The Polynesian Family. 



IV. THE AMERICAN RACE. 



The American Race is marked by a brown complexion, long, black, lank 

 hair, and deficient beard. The eyes are black and deep set, the brow low, the 

 cheek-bones high, the nose large and aquiline, the mouth large, and the lips 

 tumid and compressed. The skull is small, wide between the parietal protu- 

 berances, prominent at the vertex, and flat on the occiput. In their mental 

 character the Americans are averse to cultivation, and slow in acquiring know- 

 ledge; restless, revengeful, and fond of war, and wholly destitute of maritime 

 adventure. 



15. The American Family. 



16. The Toltecan Family. 



V. THE ETHIOPIAN RACE. 



Characterised by a black complexion, and black, woolly hair; the eyes are 

 large and prominent, the nose broad and flat, the lips thick, and the mouth wide: 

 the head is long and narrow, the forehead low, the cheek-bones prominent, the 



