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... Polynesians , which latter are conjectured to have been saved , by a flight to the summits of the mountains , now forming the islands they occupy , —and upon the difficulty of accounting in any other manner for the presence of some ...
... Polynesians , which latter are conjectured to have been saved , by a flight to the summits of the mountains , now forming the islands they occupy , —and upon the difficulty of accounting in any other manner for the presence of some ...
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Alexander Warfield Bradford. Mexicans , Peruvians , and Polynesians , is unquestionable ; but this , in itself , argues nothing in favor of a land connection . Besides , if these resemblances are referrible to such a commu- nication ...
Alexander Warfield Bradford. Mexicans , Peruvians , and Polynesians , is unquestionable ; but this , in itself , argues nothing in favor of a land connection . Besides , if these resemblances are referrible to such a commu- nication ...
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... Polynesians , the Northmen , and the Welsh ; whilst some have gone a step further and con- sidered America as the most ancient of the continents , and the Indians as the real aborigines of the soil . ** If the Carthagenians are to be ...
... Polynesians , the Northmen , and the Welsh ; whilst some have gone a step further and con- sidered America as the most ancient of the continents , and the Indians as the real aborigines of the soil . ** If the Carthagenians are to be ...
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... Polynesia . VII . The Alfouru and Australian nations . * Blumenbach , who has been followed in his classifi- cation by Dr. Lawrence and other distinguished naturalists , after a most thorough investigation , determined upon a distri ...
... Polynesia . VII . The Alfouru and Australian nations . * Blumenbach , who has been followed in his classifi- cation by Dr. Lawrence and other distinguished naturalists , after a most thorough investigation , determined upon a distri ...
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... Polynesian islands , and who , so far as our descriptions of them extend , seem to possess none of those distinctive peculiari- ties which should class them as a separate and original human variety . For this reason , they have been ...
... Polynesian islands , and who , so far as our descriptions of them extend , seem to possess none of those distinctive peculiari- ties which should class them as a separate and original human variety . For this reason , they have been ...
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