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the Americans, as well as the people of the 
Mongul race, have less flexibility of orga- 
nization than the other nations of Asia and 
Europe. 
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The American race, though the least nu- 
merous of any, occupies the largest space 
on the Globe. It extends across both 
hemispheres, from sixty-eight degrees of 
northern, and fifty-five degrees of southern 
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latitude. It is the only race, which has, 
fixed its dwelling on the burning plains 
bounded by the ocean, as well as on the 
ridges of the mountains, where it roams 
over heights twelve hundred feet above 
that of the Peak of Teneriffe. 
The number of languages, which distin- 
guish the different native ’ tribes, appears 
still more considerable in the New Con- 
tinent than in Afriea, where, according to 
the late researches of Messrs. Seetzen and 
Vater, there are above one hundred and 
forty. In this respect the whole of Ame- 
rica resembles Caucasus, Italy before the 
conquest of the Romans, Asia Minor when 
