. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Sculptured Fool. Mummied Idiot 432 COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF RACES. Oceanic Races. Geographers divide our globe into Europe, Asia, Africa, America,and Oceanica. This last region has been subjected to many system-atic divisions by different writers ; but M. Jacquinots are both simpleand comprehensive: — 1. Australia—embraces New Holland, and Tasmania or Van Diemens Land. 2. Polynesia—all the islands
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Sculptured Fool. Mummied Idiot 432 COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF RACES. Oceanic Races. Geographers divide our globe into Europe, Asia, Africa, America,and Oceanica. This last region has been subjected to many system-atic divisions by different writers ; but M. Jacquinots are both simpleand comprehensive: — 1. Australia—embraces New Holland, and Tasmania or Van Diemens Land. 2. Polynesia—all the islands of the Pacific Ocean, from the west coast of America tothe Philippines, and the Moluccas; comprising what have been termed Micronesia andMelanesia. 3. Malaysia, or East Indies—Indian Archipelago; containing the Sunda, Philippine andMolucca Islands. The three divisions together are termed Oceanica; and the races of men distributed overthis vast area present an infinite diversity of types, which have also been variously clas-sified. Prichard very justly remarks that these Oceanic types differ so much among eachother, and from the inhabitants of the Old and New World, that it is now impos
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