. Anthropology . e back. Kil. 131 . 140 . 155 . 153 . 165 . 132 According to Mr. Gould, the maximum of muscular strength inboth cases is at 31 years, and according to Quetelet at 25. Itis evident that we must take the former. The following table,which it would have been easy to enlarge, has reference to is derived from various sources, and where not specially men-tioned from Peron, Quoy, Gaimard, and the Novarra: 400 MUSCULAR STRENGTH. [Chap. viii. Ma nual strength Back strength Kil. Kil. 122 610 160 23 Hawai Islanders 60-1 171 84 Micronesians ... 56-8 150 26 Timorians 52-4
. Anthropology . e back. Kil. 131 . 140 . 155 . 153 . 165 . 132 According to Mr. Gould, the maximum of muscular strength inboth cases is at 31 years, and according to Quetelet at 25. Itis evident that we must take the former. The following table,which it would have been easy to enlarge, has reference to is derived from various sources, and where not specially men-tioned from Peron, Quoy, Gaimard, and the Novarra: 400 MUSCULAR STRENGTH. [Chap. viii. Ma nual strength Back strength Kil. Kil. 122 610 160 23 Hawai Islanders 60-1 171 84 Micronesians ... 56-8 150 26 Timorians 52-4 118 12 Tasmanians (Peron) ... 50-6 118 30 Australians 48-0 100 57 Chinese ... .... 46-8 111 315 French seamen (Ransonnet) 46-8 142 6381 White soldiers (Gould) 46-8 155 1141 „ seamen „ 46-8 130 1600 Negroes „ 46-8 146 704 Mulattoes „ 46-8 158 503 Iroquois Indians „ 46-8 190 Peron and Freyeinet at first came to the conclusion that savageraces were inferior in point of strength to the European races. But. Fig. 41.—Mathieus Dynamometer. the aborigines upon whom their experiments were made were notin their own native forests, and were no doubt frightened duringthe experiment. The above averages clearly show that the Austra-lians are very defective in manual strength, but that the Chineseare still more so. Those with the greatest amount of strengthin the back, on the other hand, are the Iroquois Indians, and afterthem the natives of the Sandwich Archipelago. Negroes areundoubtedly stronger in the back than whites, but mulattoesare stronger than either. The muscular inferiority of the whiteseamen of Eansonnet and Gould clearly proves that the physio- Chap, vni.] CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD. 401 logical condition surpasses in all cases the anthropological his statistics Mr. Gonld has separated the delicate from those inperfect health, the difference hetween them heing , in white soldiers of delicate constitution the strength of thehack was 127 kil
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