The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-06-21

may be accounted handsome.
Lemaire makes the same observation con-
cerning the negresses of Senegal and Gam
bia, and Anderson confirms it of the Sene-
gambian', which possesses, according TO him,
beautiful eyes, small mouth and lips, with
we'll proportional features. He says some
are perfect beauties. The testimony Of Nun
60 Park is to the same effect of the Jaloffs,
Lot having the protuberant lip, nor flat nose
of the African. The features Of the Friendly
islanders vary much, and many have genuine
Roman nos S, and lundrels of European
faces among them.
1t is obvious that the causes of national
variety in the features must be much the
same with those that influence t te form of
the head, as much must depend on the bones
both of the cranium and face. 1t is difficult
to assign any satisfactory ores. Climate has
been considered leading circumstance
Some facts initiate particularly against Its ef-
fcacy, as the peculiar characters of the Jew
and Gipsey countenance, after such long
abodes in different climates from the original.
The common origin Of the Llpander and
Hungarian who differ widely in features,
countenances the opinion Forn of tie era
mum 1t is sufficiently obvious that there
must be close connection between the ex.
trnal parts of the fee, or the features, and
the tony compages which lies under and sup
port these; SO that we might venture to affirm
that blind man, if he know the vast differ
ence which exist between the face of a CAL
muck, and that Of a negro, would be alb e to
distinguish the crania of these two races Of
mankind by the mere touch. Nor could you
persuade any person however ignorant of the
subject, that either Of these skulls belonged
to a head, similar to those from which the di-
vine examples of ancient Gr,cian sculptures
were copied. Thus much is clear and unde-
niablc, as to The general habit and appear
auce # the skull. a careful anatomical in
vestis sa'ion Of genuine sp, cimens of the cra-
light n the subject of the varieties of the hu-
man race. Such a cJml arison shows us that
the firm Of the Uranium diff, RS no less than
the color of the skin, or other character, in
differ, nj individuals, AID that one kind OF
structure runs Y gentle and almost nob
ser' abe grad.tiens into another yet there il
on the whole an und, nj be, nay, very re-
max bic c0nstahcy Of character, in the era
Lii Of liifcrent ra,iJns, con,ribu ing very es-
scntia,!y TO rational pcculi riiics Of form, and
orresponding Exactly to the features, which
charact,riz, such nations. Hence, anaton.is S
have att, mpted to lay DO vn some scale Of d.
mensions, TO which the various forms of the
skull might be referred and by means OF
which thcv might be reduced into certain
classes. For particular information on TIL,
subj &C., and the pleasure ard knowledge re.
sulling from it, would refer to all the diff
ferent works which have tended upon it, from
Gaul and Sporyeheim their founders, to the
present time, but would recommend Comb or
the intellect, as superior to all others.
Blumenback gave a scale Of xamining tn,
Uranium, long anterior to the time of Gaul
which, from its righteousness, ght not b,
uninterestipg TO the reader. He observes
the most important points which especially
contributes TO the comparison of nationa
characteristics, can be most completely OBJ
served by placing the different crania, will
the Zygomae's in the same perpendicular line
on table in row, and contemplating then
from b, hind. This method he calls III,
nOmea oerticalis, and illustrates by means o
three heads. The middle one he takes fol
beauty and symmetry of all its parts, anG
designates it a Georgian female, the two outel
ones in the opposite extremes, he denominate
the elongated head of a negress from til,
coast Of Guinea; the other expanded lateral
/ ly, and fattened in front, Tungoose, from
the northeast of Asia. He de scrbes tn,
margin of the orbits and Zygoma as eegal Il,
contracted in the Georgian, and the jaws hid
den by the symmetrical expansion of the fore
head. While in the Ethiopian the maxilar,
bones, and indeed the whole face, are com
pressed laterally, and project in front.
In the TungoOse on the contrary, the oss'
naalae, oSsa naSi, are situated on the sam
horizontal level, and are enormously expand
ed on either side. The oSsa malde are til,
bones of the face commonly called cheek
bones, and oSSa nasi that of the nose T.
those who are lovers of chronological studies
would do well to examine Fowler & Co.
last work on the national varieties of tn,
skulls of the different nations of the Globe.
We find striking difference in color o
tie skin, hair and iris, of all the different va
rieties of mankind, sufficiently as generally t
pronounce it national, and no less marked dill
ference in the conformation of the bones G