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projecting jaws, whose alveolar margin slopes towards the front, by reason 

 of which the teeth have an oblique direction. The forehead is small, 

 the cheek-bones and arches of the temporal bones prominent, the lips 

 protruding, nose flattened, and nostrils wide ; hair mostly w^oolly, and 

 matted together like felt, sometimes curled, or straight and long ; beard 

 generally thin and bristly. Complexion black to yellowish brown. Cuvier 

 distributes the different stocks of mankind among-st these three races in the 



following manner 



' Armenians. 



Caucasian Race. \ Indians. 



Mongolian or 

 Altaian Race. 



{ 



Scythians and 

 Tartars. 



' Calmucs. 

 Kalkas-Mongols . 

 Mandchus. 

 Japanese and 



Coreans. 



Siberians. 



' Asyrians. 



Chaldeans. 



Arabians. 

 { Phoenicians. 



Hebrews. 



Abyssinian s. 

 ^ Egyptians ? 



Sanscrit Stock. 



Pelasgian Stock. 



{ 



Gothic Stock. 



\ 



Slavonic Stock. \ 



Parthians. 

 Turks. 

 Finlanders. 

 I Hungarians. 



Ancient Per- 

 { sians. 

 I Hindoos. 



[ Celts ? 

 { Greeks. 

 Latins. 



Germans and 



Dutch. 

 English. 

 Danes and 



Swedes. 

 Russians. 

 Poles. 

 Bohemians, 

 Wendes. 



f Samoyeds. 

 ^ Laplanders. 

 [ Esquimaux. 



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