A synopsis of natural history : embracing the natural history of animals, with human and general animal physiology, botany, vegetable physiology, and geology / translated from the latest French edition of C. Lemmonnier, with additions from the works of Cuvier, Dumaril, Lacepede, etc., and arranged as a text book for schools by Thomas Wyatt.
- Lemonnier, Céran
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A synopsis of natural history : embracing the natural history of animals, with human and general animal physiology, botany, vegetable physiology, and geology / translated from the latest French edition of C. Lemmonnier, with additions from the works of Cuvier, Dumaril, Lacepede, etc., and arranged as a text book for schools by Thomas Wyatt. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![ished, especially about the lip, and brown approaching to red; Hair flat, usually black; body robust and muscular; legs short; knees turning outwards ; feet inwards. Wanderers, indomitable hunters, shepherds, but never agriculturists. Having no local attachments, they emigrate in innumerable bands, and, at different epochs, spread themselves like a flood to the north, south or west. MONGOLIAN VARIETY. Face flat; forehead square and oblique; eyeballs project- ing ; eyes narrow and oblique; chin slightly projecting; beard thin; hair straight and black; skin more or less yel- low or olive; language monosyllabic. [Asia beyond the Ganges.] Chinese. Face round and widened in the middle ; cheek bones pro- jecting ; eyes almond shape when open, with the external angle very high; lids large and nearly destitute of lashes; brows very thin and black; nose well separated from the forehead by a deep depression, rounded, slightly flattened, with the nostrils somewhat expanded; mouth large, with vertical teeth ; lips thick and of a livid red; chin small and unfurnished with beard; hair smooth, flat, never curling, of moderate length, thick and always black; skin oily, and sometimes of a deep brown. Mild, civil, flatterers, cringing, brokers and greedy of gain. They are essentially rice eaters. Malays. Complexion maroon colour, approaching to brick-red or yellow; eyes less elevated towards the temples; eye-balls less projecting than among the Chinese. [The coast of Indo- China, all the Asiatic Archipelago and the ocean as far as Madagascar.] Hyperborean Regions of the two Continents. Head round and of huge dimensions ; face wide, short and flat in front; nose flattened ; eye-lids drawn up towards the temples; mouth large; teeth vertical; hair smooth, black, naturally greasy and hard; beard thin; ordinary height about five feet; skin tawny and even entirely black, ac-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21136427_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
