Archive image from page 565 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana0402todd Year: 1849 1350 VARIETIES OF MANKIND. not to be regarded as Arian, but as Mon- golian ; and the introduction of the Sanscrit language was accomplished by an invading branch of the Arian stock, the only trace of which is to be found in the distinctness of the Brahminical portion of the Hindoo popu- lation, in whose religious and other writings the Sanscrit language is still preserved. In the Asiatic group of Jndo-Gennanic nations, the same general type of conforma- tion
Archive image from page 565 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana0402todd Year: 1849 1350 VARIETIES OF MANKIND. not to be regarded as Arian, but as Mon- golian ; and the introduction of the Sanscrit language was accomplished by an invading branch of the Arian stock, the only trace of which is to be found in the distinctness of the Brahminical portion of the Hindoo popu- lation, in whose religious and other writings the Sanscrit language is still preserved. In the Asiatic group of Jndo-Gennanic nations, the same general type of conforma- tion presents itself as in the European ; there is, however, a much greater variety of com- plexion. The mountaineers, even within the tropics, are often as fair as Europeans ; whilst those who live in the level plains, and are ex- posed to the full heat of the torrid zone, may be of a very deep brown or even black hue. The variety of complexion shown among the Hindoos, even in the Brahminical caste, has been already adverted to. There is but little to remind us of the Mongolian type in the countenances of the Hindoos, which are often remarkable for symmetrical beauty, that only want a more intellectual expression to render them extremely striking; some traces of it, however, may perhaps be found in the rather prominent zygomatic arches (fig. 828); Fig. 828. the colour darker, but the cheek bones are more prominent, the hair coarse, scanty, and straight, the nose flattened; and sometimes the lips are very thick, and the jaws project, so that we have indications of a transition towards both the pyramidal and the progna- thous types. The south-western portion of Asia is occu- pied by the Arabs and other Semitic races, which, as will be presently explained, form the transition between the proper Asiatic and pro- per African nations. The whole remainder of the vast Asiatic continent is occupied by nations which present a sufficiently close approximation to each other, either in ph
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