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 ing to Professor Morton, of Philadelphia, it is over nine cubic inches smaller.) The bulk of the white man's brain is located in the front, and of the black man's in the back of his head, The white man's eyes are clear and of various colors—the black man's eyes are invariably opaquely dark. The eyes of the Black man stand out further than the white man's. The white of the white man's eyes is a clear white—in the Black man it is yellowish and dingy, and often blood-shot. The skin of the Black man is thicker than the white man's. The complexion of the Black man is black—the white man's is white. The nose of the white man is high and thin—the black man's is low and broad. The nostrils of the white man enter his nose perpendicularly —the black man's enter his obliquely.

The lips of the white man are red—the black man's are reddish brown. The teeth of the white man meet together perpendicularly—the black man's meet at an obtuse angle, projecting forward. The jaws of the black man project farther forward; His ears are smaller and stand further back; His neck is shorter; His arms are longer;

His fingers are flatter; His feet are broader, flatter and his insteps lower; His toes are longer; His toe and finger nails are thicker and narrower; His legs are thinner and more bowing than the white man's.