Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ringing updepart in an easterly direction. By carefulstudy from north to south through thisregion of the earth he finds the recur-rence of the same phenomena. In aword, he is unable to trace further thefootmarks of the Aryan races. It is nat-ural, and, indeed, necessary, to the prose-cution of the inquiry that this particularbelt from which the lines of ethnictransmission seem to depart to rightand left, that is,
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ringing updepart in an easterly direction. By carefulstudy from north to south through thisregion of the earth he finds the recur-rence of the same phenomena. In aword, he is unable to trace further thefootmarks of the Aryan races. It is nat-ural, and, indeed, necessary, to the prose-cution of the inquiry that this particularbelt from which the lines of ethnictransmission seem to depart to rightand left, that is, to east and westalike, should be examined with greatcare. If the observer take his position onthe northern shore of the gulf of Omanand look straight across watershed be-Asia in the direction of ZT^lS^-Nova Zembla, he will have hound races,before him a continental line whichwill approximately coincide with a sortof ethnic watershed in the history ofmankind from which the races haveflowed to right and left in the originaldistribution. Of a certainty this state-ment is not scientifically exact. Therewill be found much twisting and turn-ino- after the manner of streams that take. EVIDENCE OF PREHISTORIC RACES—(3) RUINS OF TEMPLE, IN TIT1CACA IN AMERICA. their rise, flowing in their upper coursesin many directions rather than in one,until a heavy volume has been acquiredand a definite course determined. But,on the whole, that belt of Asia lying be-tween the fiftieth and sixtieth parallelsof longitude east from Greenwich will befound to contain the fountain heads, asfar as the same have been discovered,not only of the Europic-Aryan races, butalso of the vast Indie and Iranic-Aryanfamilies, as well as the still more widelydistributed Mongolian families by whichthe larger part of Asia, Polynesia, and theaboriginal Americas have been peopled. 168 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. The geographical belt in question co-incides roughly with the line of the riverPrimitive races Ural, the Caspian, t
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