Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . east-and the Hoang-Ho, with theexception of the eastern part, next toCorea and the sea of Japan, which iscalled Manchuria. The people knownas Manchus are also descendants of thenortheast stream of Asiatic is in this region, near the mouth ofthe Amoor, that the great movement ofthe Brown races of men in their progress DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—THE BROWN DISPERSION. 515 eastward was checked and turned back. into the
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . east-and the Hoang-Ho, with theexception of the eastern part, next toCorea and the sea of Japan, which iscalled Manchuria. The people knownas Manchus are also descendants of thenortheast stream of Asiatic is in this region, near the mouth ofthe Amoor, that the great movement ofthe Brown races of men in their progress DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—THE BROWN DISPERSION. 515 eastward was checked and turned back. into the almost limitless regions of North-Dispersion of ern Asia. First of all thedeflfrerinT/ Mongolian stream, afterAmoor vaUey. crossing to the north of theAmoor, was reflected into a loop, and themigratory movement was resumed to-ward the head-waters of the Hoano-Ho. appears that the reverse line represent-ing the departure of this race reachesthroughout the entire breadth of Asia,having its origin as a separate ethnicdivision in the Russian province ofAmoor, north of the river of that name,and extending westward through Mon-golia into Turkistan. The main migra-. CHUTE OF by D. Lancelot, after Atkln In the upper valley of this great riverthe Calmuck Tartars were deposited, asthe result of the backward migration justdescribed. A second stream was deflect-ed from the main line of this movementand contributed the Buriats, holding thecountry south of lake Baikal. More ex-traordinary still was the departure fromthe backward curve of the Mongoloidsof the Turkish division of mankind. It tory line seems to have passed south oflake Balkash, and to have thence contin-ued its western progress across the Uraland the Volga to the northern shores ofthe Black sea. On the whole, this progressof the Turcomans is one of the most re-markable among the ethnic movementsof mankind. The principal families de-posited at the extreme of the migrationon the line we are now considering w
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