The Book of the World, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from The Book of the World, Vol. 1 of 2: Being an Account of All Republics, Empires, Kingdoms, and Nations, in Reference to Their Geography, Statistics, Commerce, and Together With a Brief Historical Outline of Their Rise, Progress, and Present Condition, Etc The Ethiopic or Black race, have the head narrow, and the forehead convex and vaulted, the cheek bones projecting, the nostrils wide, the jaws long, the skull generally thick and heavy. The lips, particularly the upper one, are very thick, the jaws prominent, and the chin retracted The skin of this class, and the iris, are deep black, the hair black and woolly. These characteristics are very uniform. The Ethiopic races inhabit Central and Southern Africa, Australia, and some of the Oceanic islands. The American family approaches the Mongolian. This is fully de scribed ia another place. The Malays have the top of the head slightly narrowed, the forehead a little arched, the cheek bones not prominent, the upper jaws a little pushed forward, and the prominence of the parietal bones strongly marked. The face is less narrowed than that of the negro, somewhat advancing in the lower part, when seen in profile the features are more prominent, the nose full, broad and thick towards the point, or what is called a bottle nose the skin is tawny, the hair black, soft, curled, and abundant. In this class are comprised all the natives of the islands in the Pacific Ocean: (excepting those already mentioned as belonging to the Ethiopic class likewise the dominant nations of the Indian Archipelago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.