Identifier: racesofmantheir00pick (find matches)
Title: The races of man, and their geographical distribution
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Pickering, Charles, 1805-1878 Hall, John Charles, 1816-1876
Subjects: Ethnology Monogenism and polygenism
Publisher: London : H. G. Bohn
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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be perceived when I speak frommy own knowledge; in which case only can I be heldresponsible for my opinion. Wherever I have seen formyself, all difficulties have disappeared; not so in variousinstances, where I have been obliged to decide on conflictingstatements. In general I have found oral testimony moresatisfactory, in the present inquiry, than books. But Iwould here state, that I yet feel much uncertainty aboutthe tribes inhabiting the important range of islands betweenTimor and the Solomon Group, both inclusive. The dotted lines are intended to illustrate the subject ofthe diffusion of mankind over the globe; marking such asare presumed to have been the main routes of migration, byland and sea. xill coasts may be referred to three principal divisions;which are likewise represented, but without pretension tominute accuracy. These are the alluvial, the rocky (exclu-sively or alternating), and the coral-hound. The coasts ofthe latter description I am enabled to give chiefly through
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mmF«?>it,i/t cz\ Mongolism aJW-«/»-JW<» Cn^dus-tralutr, I ).K,-,ii;< J.&C.WaJMer.Sc. EXPLANATION OF THE MAP. 5 the assistance of Mr. Dana; and they deserve attention ashaving an important bearing, to be hereafter noticed, onhnman migrations. The phases of climate, varying especially in the propor-tions of moisture, partition out the soil and its vegetablegrowth into three well-marked divisions. 1. There arecountries which are almost entirely devoid of vegetation.2. Other extensive regions are more or less covered withherbage, or produce scattered bushes and stunted woodyplants, but are destitute of proper forests. 3. A thirddescription of territory is, in its natural state, clothed withcontinuous woods. This state of things is likewise repre-sented on the map, not merely from its connexion with geo-graphical botany, but as a point eminently illustrative of thehistory and present condition of the human family. Art indeed cuts down the forest, and encroaches slightlyonracesofmantheir00pick

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