[114] The proportion given by Camper is this: the great diameter is to the little,
- In the European :: 41 : 27.
- In the Negro :: 39 : 27·5.
[115] Account of the Regular Gradation of Man, 4to, London, 1799, p. 118.
[116] Cours de Physiologie, Paris, 1848, vol. i, p. 394. See, also, on the same question, A. Maury, in the Athénéum Français, 1853, No. 47.
[117] [We cannot entirely agree with the author regarding the low stature of the Spaniards. From our own observation we may unreservedly say that, at all events, the inhabitants of the south and south western parts of Spain are a fine race, not at all liable to the charge of being different in height from the Anglo-Saxons.—Editor.]
[118] [Although our author rather despises the idea of the legs being bowed by riding, it is tolerably well known in this country that too much riding on horseback, when young, and especially on large animals, is very apt to alter the shape of delicate and weakly limbs.—Editor.]
[119] “Tribus Mongoles,” translated by S. A. de Grandsagne, in the Mémoires du Muséum, vol. xvii.
[120] See Broca, Bulletins de la Société d’Anthropologie, 3rd April, 1862.
[121] See Lawrence, Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, London, 1848, p. 410.
[122] Davy, An Account of the Interior of Ceylon, 1821, p. 109.