The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-07-19

| continent oil Asia, have generally, but errone-
ously, been included with some of very diff
ferent ori, in and formation, under the name
Of Tartsrs whereas the last mentioned tribes,
properly SO called, belong to the first division
of the human race. The Calmucks, and 9TH
er Mongolian nations, which overrun the
Saracen empire under Tenghis Khan, about
the thirteenth century, and had entered Eu-
rope, al described in the " Historice Magyar"
Of Mathew Peevis under the name Of Tartars,
whereas that name, (or, as it should be spell
ed, Tatars, properly belongs TO the Western
Asiatcs, who had been vanquished by the
Malays. The error, however, arising from
this source, has been propagated down to this
day, SO that in the works of the most approx
ed naturalists, as Button and Erxleben, we
find tie characters Of the Mangolisn race as
cribed to what they call, the Tartars.
The Tartars indeed are connected by the
Kirgiseis, and neighboring tribes, to the Mon.
grels, in the same way as the latter are join
ed by the Inhabitants of Thibct to the Indians,
by the Esqumaux, to the / mericans, and by
Philippian Islanders to the Malays.
81. Ethiopian valety-Black skiqN black
and woolly hair head narrow and compress
ed lateIally arched forehead; cheek-b
standing forward prominent eyes; thick
nose, confused with the extended jaw alveo-
lar arch narrow, and elongated antericrly;
the upper front teeth projecting obliquely !;
the lips, and particularly the upper one,
thick ; the chin receding knees turned in in
many instances. The remaining Africans,
besides those classed in the first variety. be-
long TO this
Several Of the observations in the preced-
ing parts of this article show, how i'll founded
is the opinion of those who consider the Af-
rcap as distinct species, merely because his
color, very striking character, is so unlike
our own. Tie observation that negroes re-
semble monke Us more than the other varieties
is true in the same sense as it might be said,
that the variety Of the pig which has a solid
hoof, resembles the horse more nearly than
other pigs but the comparison itself is not a
very important one, since it has been made
by accurate observers, Of several nations in
the o;hcr varieties, as the Loplanders, Esqui-
moux, Cuniguns, OF South America, the in
habitants Of the Island Mallicollo, &c.
4th. American variety-Red color black,
straight, strong, and thin hair; short fore
head deep eyes, nose somewhat flattened,
but prominent; broad but not fatten d face,
with the cheeks standing out, and the diileren
features projecting distinctly and separately /;
the forehead and vortex often deformed by
art. This variety includes all the native
Americans, with the exception of the Esqui-
mauq.
Several idle tales have been propagated
concerning the distinguishing characters of
this race Some have denied the existence of
f beard in the male, and that Of the menses
in the female; and others have ascribed a
uniform color, to all the whole race, together
with that of the countenance and features
The concurring testimony Of all accurate OBJ
servers and moldrn travellers, prove clearly
that the Americans have naturally boards [;
that it is general custom with them, as it
has been with several Msngolan and Malay
tribes, carefully to eradicate this excresence
f but that different hordes in various parts of
the continent preserve it as other men do
From cloud of unanimous reports on this
f subject, we select the following statement of
the immortal Cook, respecting the nations of
Nootka Sound, " Some have no boards at all,
and others only a thin one on the point of the
chin. This does not arise from any original
deficiency oI hair on those parts, but from
their plucking it out by the roots; for those
} who do not destroy it, have not only consider
, able beard on every part of the chin, but also
whiskers, or mustachios running from the up
per lip to the lower jaw obliquely down,
wards" Cooks travels.) The observations
, concerning the females has arisen in conse-
; quence of their seclusion. The redness of the
, skin is not so constant, but that it varies in
5 many instances towards a brown, and ap-
proaches in some temperate situations to the
D white color. Cook states that the natives
G about Nootka sound are little inferior in fair
+ ness to Europeans; and Banguer makes the
Y same observation of the Peruvians on the An.
des. II is fully ascertained at present, that
, the Americans possess the same varieties o.
a feature which are observed in the Other
b races.
a 9Th. Malay variety-Brown color hsil
y black, soft, curled, and abundant; head moder
S ately narrow, and forehead slightly arched
: nose full and broad towards the apex. larg,
g mouth, upper jaw rather prominent the fea
s lures when viewed in profile, projecting anc