INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 3 



The Esquimaux range contains those most northern parts of the three continents of Europe, 

 Asia, and America, not occupied by the other races. 



The Ethiopian or Negro range is confined to Africa, together with the island of Madagascar. 

 The American range occupies the whole of that vast continent, except the parts north of a 



line drawn frcm the northern side of Hudson's Bay to Cook's Inlet, which forms a part of the 

 Esquimaux range. 



The Malay range contains Malacca, Australia, and the intermediate islands of the Pacific and 

 Indian Oceans, extending as far northwards as the Phillipine Group, New Zealand, and New 

 Guinea. 



The numerous islands not mentioned are considered as belonging to the ranges to which they 

 are contiguous, 



The advantage of this arrangement of the globe is simply that the zoology of the country 

 occupied by each range will, in a great measure, as far as we have been able to ascertain, be found 

 to be peculiar, the central portions of each district being occupied by a race of animals as well as by 

 a variety of man distinct from those of the other ranges, the borders of each district, or those points 

 at which they approach one another, being as it were inhabited by a mixed zoology, many of the 

 species and Genera of either of the contiguous ranges being found in it. 



There are, however, certain birds of great power of flight found distributed to a very large 

 extent over the surface of the globe, the Kestril and Peregrine Falcon may be enumerated as 

 examples. 



The object we have in view in this detail is an attempt, however imperfect, to shew that the 

 same districts occupied by the various races of man are also occupied by various races of animals, 

 each differing from the races of man and animals in the other ranges, and that it is exceedingly 

 probable that as the races of man are merely varieties, one of the other those of animals may also 

 be so. 



And why is it, we may ask, in any way improbable that, at the dispersion of man and animals 

 after the flood, the same causes may not have influenced both ? We can observe even in the 

 present state of science and observation some instances in which a parallel between animals and 

 the human race, inhabiting the same countries, can be traced, and it may be expected that as 

 science advances these parallels will increase : any one acquainted with this subject, upon 

 seeing a box of African bird skins, will at once, without examining each species, say from whence 

 they came, by their general appearance, and the darkness of their hues ; the negro race from the 

 same countries is also dark. Mr. Swainson, in volume 66 of Lardner's Cyclopaedia., observes, that 

 European Ornithology is characterised by the great number of Genera it contains in proportion to 

 the number of species. There are also, perhaps, more sub-varieties of the Caucassian race than 

 of any other, caused, probably, by the great variety of the climates. 



The birds and animals of the Esquimaux range are nearly all migratory ; the human 

 inhabitants of the country are also seldom stationary for long together in the same spot, for the 

 same reason, the want of food. 



Thus, in some instances at least, we see that man and animals are influenced by the sanu 

 cause, and why. therefore, is it by any means improbable that many of the animals, inhabiting 

 different countries, and allowed to be allied, are of the same species, but have, by local causes, 

 through a succession of ages, become altered p 



Although we have said much, perhaps too much, on this subject, and, we fear, tired OUJ 



