Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . of thecountry that ethnographers have placedthe Orarians proper, while to the north,in Upper Alaska, that is, between theYukon and the Arctic ocean, we have adistribution of the Western :rther to the east and central to thepeninsula are the Tinneh races, or atleast a branch thereof, while to thesouth of these and around the coast of DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—THE BROWN DISPERSION. 521 the Great archipelago are locate
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . of thecountry that ethnographers have placedthe Orarians proper, while to the north,in Upper Alaska, that is, between theYukon and the Arctic ocean, we have adistribution of the Western :rther to the east and central to thepeninsula are the Tinneh races, or atleast a branch thereof, while to thesouth of these and around the coast of DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—THE BROWN DISPERSION. 521 the Great archipelago are located theTlinkets and Nasses. The outlyingislands are inhabited by other branchesof the same race called the Yakuts,the Sitkans, and the Hidahs. By the time that the ethnographer hasadvanced thus far to the east, in follow-ing the lines of the Asiatic Mongoloids the Polynesians who had come primarilyto the shore of the continent in the re-gion of Old California. Advancing stillfurther to the east, and following thesame Asiatic Mongoloid line of disper-sion in the extreme north, the inquirerwill make his way above the region ofthe Great Bear and Great Slave lakes,. KOUIE OF IHE CHOM AI UISlJH<iI0Nf ^OUIHW ARD Pavama.—Drawn by De Berard. continentward, he finds himself con-fronted with what appear to be return-Polynesian Mon- ing races of PolynesianithAsTaSc extraction. The Tinnehderivatives. family abovc referred toare a people different apparently in racecharacteristics from the other stocks ofAlaska, and it is generally concededthat they have been carried into this re-mote position by a returning migration of34 in the country of the widely spread fam-ily called the Tinneh. The territoryoccupied by this division extends fromabout the meridian of one hundred andtwenty-five degrees west, eastward toHudsons bay and the gulf of limits northward are the Arcticocean and the countries of the EasternEsquimaux, whose line of dispersionreaches the coast of Labrador. On the
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