the term _Allophyllian_.

This glotto-historical division does not exactly correspond with the
physical division as deduced from the form of the skull. The three
nations first above mentioned, or the inhabitants of the central
regions, from which they at least are supposed, according to this view,
to have emanated, have all the oval skull; though, when we pass to the
nomadic people of high Asia, we get the pyramidal, and, passing from
Egypt to Africa, we get a gradually increasing tendency to the
prognathous form.

It would carry us far beyond the usual bounds of an article in this
Magazine, were we to give even a condensed abstract of the descriptions,
individual and collective, of each of these leading divisions and their
various subdivisions. We will observe generally that the central portion
of the work, which contains a detailed account of the divisions
physical, ethical, and ethnical, of all the most marked varieties of the
human race, accompanied with illustrative pictures and woodcuts, evinces
the most elaborate research, and, as a work of reference, will be
doubtless found of great value. We will, therefore, pass to the fifth
great division of the human race, which is discussed in a later portion
of the work, and which is not very distinctly connected with the other
four--viz. the American. The Sioux tribes, however, who occupy tracts
of land on the Upper Mississippi, are supposed with great probability,
from their physical character, language, and tradition, to be the
descendants of a Tartar race, who have emigrated across the north-west
straits of America.

"The aboriginal people of America are generally considered as a
department of the human family very distinct from the inhabitants
of the Old World. The insulated situation of the continent, and the
fact that it was so long unknown, and the tribes which it contains
so long cut off from intercourse with other nations, are among the
circumstances which have contributed to produce this impression.
The American nations, taken in the aggregate, are neither among
themselves so uniform and unvaried in the physical and moral
qualities, nor is the line of distinction between them and the rest
of mankind so strongly marked and so obvious, as most persons
imagine. Yet it must be admitted that certain characters are
discoverable which are common, or nearly so, to the whole of this
department of nation