306 a n a l o g ic a l in v e s t ig a t io n .
The same type of features, and the broad-faced and pyramidal
form of the skull belong’ not more to. the Mongoles
than to many other nations quite distinct from them. The
Ostiaks and Siberian Tschudish or Finnish nations-partake of
it :_the offsets of the same stock in Europe, namely, the Hun^
garians and proper Finns, no longer display the same character,
though it is fully preserved by some of the Laplanders. The
Samoiedes. in the north of Europe and Asia, as well as the Yu-
kagers, Koriacs; Tschuktschi, Kamtschad⩽ and many other
nations less known, have a similar form> as I shall endeavbur
to show by accounts hereafter to be cited. .TheTungusian, or
Man-tschu race, quite distinct from the Mongolian*, as well as
the.Chinese, Indo-Chinese, the Tangutian or Tibetan, and the
Japanese nations, belong to the same class-Some tribes of the
Turkish or Tartar race display a similar, conformation; though
others have a different shape of the head, and resemble Europeans...
Lastly, the Esquimaux, a race separated into a great
number of hordes, and occupying the^^Oies-xulthe 'Polar
Sea, from Asia, where they exist northwards of Kamtschatka,
to Greenland in the west, have,, the pyramidal, or eonoidalf
or broad-faced skull in a most marked"degree. By some
the Esquimaux with the Samoiedes, have been classed tqgetligy
as a separate branch of the human family, under the title of
the Hyperborean race; but there is no sufficient reason for.
this separation, though perhaps the peculiar type of..,the
whole class |o f tribes now described occurs in,.the Esquimaux
in a. sómèwhat exaggerated degree. - 1 have -given a n
accurate representation of an Esquimaux skull, in which
the distinguishing characters are strongly marked. Thé;
most striking of these peculiarities are, 1st. The great lateral
extension of the zygomatic arch: the cheek-bones do
not project, or advance forwards, and downwards under the
eyes, as in the prognathous skull of the Negro, but take an
extension outwards, which meetingjhe jugal process of the
temporal bone forms a rounded sweep, or arch or segment of
a circle; hence the face is much broader in the plane of the
cheek-bones and under the eyes than it is above or below,
and instead of being of a somewhat flattened oval fo.rm, as in
most Europeans, is of a lozenge shape, rising like one of the faces
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