. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. I CHAPTEB ^tribution of Curopean jUacesi. THE subjoined map indicates the main European races. The ArabicfigiTres stand for the following :—1. Lapps ; 2. Samoyedes ; 3. Scan-. dinavians ; 4. Russians; 5. Gipsies; 6. Magyars ; 7. Serbs ; 8. Tartars;9. Turks; 10. Spaniards; 11. Italians; 12. Greeks; 13. Ciicassians, etc. DISTRIBUTION OF EUROPEAN RACES. 223 Irish Gaels (
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. I CHAPTEB ^tribution of Curopean jUacesi. THE subjoined map indicates the main European races. The ArabicfigiTres stand for the following :—1. Lapps ; 2. Samoyedes ; 3. Scan-. dinavians ; 4. Russians; 5. Gipsies; 6. Magyars ; 7. Serbs ; 8. Tartars;9. Turks; 10. Spaniards; 11. Italians; 12. Greeks; 13. Ciicassians, etc. DISTRIBUTION OF EUROPEAN RACES. 223 Irish Gaels (Scotch Highlands)Welsh ....Cornish ....Bretons (Brittany) . 3,000,000600,000 1,,000 1,300,000 The liglit-coloured portion of tlie map shows the regions where theAryans greatly predominate, and four main groups are indicated byRoman numbers: I. Grseco-E-omans; II. Basques; III. Celts; ; V. Slavs. The shaded regions are those which Mongoloidpeoples inhabit in considerable numbers, though, not by any means to theexclusion of Aryans. The following table shows approximately the distribution of races inEurope :— CAUCASIANS. ARYANS (also TERMED INDO-EUROPEANS). A group of races which are believed to have originated in CentralAsia, and successively sent forth branches west into Europe, south intoIndia, and south-west into Persia and Asia Minor. Successive waves ofthese invaders re
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