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PHYSICAL HISTORY OF MAN. 



with the Negro, only at Marseilles, and in the instance of two or 

 three resident individuals. 



All innovations resulting from the developement of European navi- 

 gation, have been excluded from the accompanying map ; which (the 

 Arab countries being partially excepted), is intended to represent the 

 aboriginal diffusion of the races. Of isolated districts, Africa appears 

 to contain the greatest number of aboriginal races; and next in order, 

 will probably follow, either Madagascar or New Guinea. 



Density of population being hidependent of territorial extent, tl.ie 

 races when compared by the number of individuals, rank differently 

 from the appearance of things on the map. The usual estimates of 

 the population of the globe, vary from eight hundred to a thousand 

 millions; and taking the mean, the human family would seem to 

 be distributed among the races in something like the following pro- 

 portions : 



The White, 

 The Mongolian, 

 The Malayan, 

 The Telingan, 

 The Negro, 

 The Ethiopian, 



350,000,000 

 300,000,000 

 120,000,000 

 60,000,000 

 55,000,000 

 5,000,000 



The Abyssinian, 

 The Papuan, . 

 The Negrillo, 

 The Australian, 

 The Hottentot, 



3,000,000 

 3,000,000 

 3,000,000 

 500,000 

 500,000 



