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 .. . ted in thenorth. The whole scheme of migratorydispersion resembles the two sides of aleaf, having its stem between the Cas-pian and the Persian gulf, its point inthe Atlantic west of the Pillars ofHercules, its left-hand side in Arabiaand Africa, and its right division inEurope. The central lines of this leafcorrespond in general with the move-ments of the Semitic races to the right-hand lines are those o
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 .. . ted in thenorth. The whole scheme of migratorydispersion resembles the two sides of aleaf, having its stem between the Cas-pian and the Persian gulf, its point inthe Atlantic west of the Pillars ofHercules, its left-hand side in Arabiaand Africa, and its right division inEurope. The central lines of this leafcorrespond in general with the move-ments of the Semitic races to the right-hand lines are those of theAryans, and the left-hand departuresthose of the Hamites. The limits of the present chapter arereached when we have marked outthe migratory movements by whichthey were distributed into their re-spective countries. It now remainsto take up another general division ofmankind, and to note in like mannerthe course which the Brown races havepursued on their way to their destina-tion in the great arena of Asia, in theislands of the Pacific, and ultimately inthe two Americas. DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—Till, BROWN DISPERSION. 505 Chapter XXIX.—Dispersion oe the Brown F it were not for theBlack races of man-kind distributed inEquatorial and South-ern Africa, in Aus-tralia, and Melanesia,the primitive seat ofthe human family might perhaps be dis-covered. If the observer should takehis stand upon the mountains of West-ern Afghanistan, he would not be farfrom such a crossing and divergence ofethnic lines as might indicate the originalcenter from which the human race wasCommon source distributed into all quarters Bro^ef f the globe. This is to may be found. say that in the country be-tween the Afghan borders and Beluchis-tan the Brown races of men, as well asthe Ruddy races, seem to take theirrise. All the Mongoloid varieties ofmankind can be traced back to thisgeographical center, and we have alreadyseen that the Noachite, or Ruddy, racehad its origin somewhere in the sam
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