. Il museo di storia naturale, con saggio introduttivo sulla storia naturale del mondo primordiale : essere un resoconto popolare della struttura, delle abitudini e della classificazione dei vari dipartimenti del regno animale, quadrupidi, uccelli, rettili, pesci, conchiglie e insetti, compresi gli insetti distruttivi per l'agricoltura . Queste tribesall parlano lingue che sono considerate derivateddal Sanscrit. Le vere tribù caucasiche, come i Circassi e i Georgiani, si distinguono dal resto per le peculiarità della lingua, che sembrerebbe indicare un aflinit) con il seguente
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. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . These tribesall speak languages which are considered to be derivedfrom the Sanscrit. The true Caucasian tribes, such asthe Circassians and Georgians, are distinguished fromthe rest by peculiarities of language, which would seemto indicate an aflinit) with the following variety, whilstthe appearance of the people, and especially the confor-mation of the skull, caused Blumenbach to regard themas the t3pe of the white races. 2. Mongolians or Turanians.—In these racesthe colour of the skin also varies from the clearwhite complexion of the firirest Europeans, throughvarious shades of olive, tawny, or even yellow, to adark yellowish-brown. The skull is rounder than inthe European races; the face is broad and flat, withvery prominent cheek-bones ; the eyes are narrow and small, with the outer angle drawn upwards, so that thedirection of the opening of the eyelids is oblique; thenose is small and broad, and the lips usually thin. TheMongolian races are distributed over the whole of Fig. 2.. Ciiinese. northern and eastern Asia, thus including the highlycultivated Chinese, Japanese, and Siamese, the nomadictribes which wander over the boundless plains of Cen-tral Asia, the Tibetans, the savage hill-tribes of north-ern Hindostan and the Turcomans of Western Asia.The latter are the original stock of the Turks, who haveestablished their rule upon the ruins of the Greekempire. It is to movements in the vast Mongolianpopidations of Northern and Central Asia, propagatedeven from the confines of China, that we are to ascribethose devastating invasions of barbarians which ulti-mately destroyed the western Roman empire. Even inEurope, the remains of these c
