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aside from any moral or political considerations. However, their temporary and continued immigration into those countries constitutes a special form of adaptation which supplies the place in another way of permanent acclimatization.

The Germanic race succeeds in the United States and in Australia. It strands in the intertropical climates and even in Algeria.

The Hollanders acclimatize easily in the colonies of South Africa. They succeed also in Algeria.

The French prosper in Canada, in Nova Scotia, in the United States, in the islands of Mauritius and Reunion, and in New Caledonia, and in Australia. They adapt themselves less in population as they approach the tropics. In the Antilles they do not increase except by mixture, and then only toward the third or fourth generation. In Algeria the French of the north are less adaptable than those of the south. They strand with- out distinction at the Senegal and in Madagascar, where no European race is able to locate and live. However, perhaps the Boers after their- prolonged stay in South Africa would be able to undertake with success the colonization of the African con- tinent.

The Spaniards and Portuguese acclimatize in the southern part of the United States, in Mexico, in the Antilles, in South America, and in Algeria. They are, however, mixed with Berber blood. They succeed also in Australia,

The Maltese and the Jews acclimatize perfectly in Algeria and Tunis. The Tsiganes, the Gypsies or Bohemians, succeed over wide areas, and are met in the forests of Brazil, upon the heights of the Himalaya, at Moscow, at Madrid, at London, at Stamboul, and in the torrid zones of India and Africa where the temper- ature reaches 35 Centigrade. The Israelites show an equal form of adaptation, less however toward the north. This faculty of transference is due in great part to the fact that they never advance abruptly to great distances, neither through violence, but gradually by following step by step the progress of civiliza- tion and especially the progress of commerce.

The Arabs also extend themselves by degrees, remaining,