. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . *\ Jil wMt V, 568 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. pear that some races, such as the Swiss, in-crease in height with their elevation fromthe sea level; but in the Peruvian high-lands the opposite rule holds good. Thoseof the upper regions are lowest in stat- lowne
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . *\ Jil wMt V, 568 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. pear that some races, such as the Swiss, in-crease in height with their elevation fromthe sea level; but in the Peruvian high-lands the opposite rule holds good. Thoseof the upper regions are lowest in stat- lowness of stature to people of thisrace. The closeness with which the races ofmen are everywhere fitted into their en-vironment is well illustrated in the An-. QUICHUAN SUPERSTITIONS.—Fumigating with ure, and those of the valley provinces anddistricts near the sea are taller. In strength, however, these peoplemake up for their deficiency in bodies are robust to a degree, theirchests and shoulders broad, and thewhle structure muscular. The head alsois of full size. The hands and feet aresmall; the limbs, though not deficientin strength, arc short. It is the short-ness of the legs, indeed, rather thanwhat Caesar would call the brevityof the body, that gives the average Cigarette. —Drawn by Riou, after a sketch by Crevaux. dean peoples of South America. Note,for instance, the powerful 1 Development of development of the chest, the chest in the mi • 11 j higher regions. 1 his is clearly causedby the rarefaction of the renewal of the blood by oxy-gen in the lungs requires a givensupply of that life-giving gas. If theair be greatly rarefied, a correspondinglylarger volume is demanded. This opensthe chest.
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