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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the world,for instance, do not have an interest com-mensurate with their extent, piant life has in-but rather with respect to ^fan^ui-their place and peculiar- iarities.ities. Thus, for example, the Montereycypress prevails on only a single pointof this terrene sphere, reaching out tothe Pacific on that part of the coastwestward from the bay of Monterey.But how great has been the interest ofbotanists, and of scholars in other de-partments of inquiry, respecting theMonterey cypress! Does it not couplethe world that now is with a world goneby? Is it not the remaining fragmentof a forest, perhaps vaster than a con-tinent, occupying aforetime the illimit-able bed of what is now the Pacific?Indeed, what does this limited grove ofMonterey cypresses, perched on thePacific cliff, standing there solitaryamong all the vegetation of the earth,signify and say to the minds of men ? In like manner a race here and thereholds such relations with the remainderof mankind that, though small in num- 691
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CEYLONESE LANDSCAPE.—Cocoanut Plantation. A US TIL ILIA .VS.— THE J HDD A IIS. 693 bers and little significant in the high-sounding pages of political history,it nevertheless possesses an inherent in-terest that only increases with the prog-ress of investigation and study. We are here to follow the line of the eastern division of the Black races of mankind from its supposed Outreaching of . . Black races origin in a Lemurian COn- east-ward. ,. -, ..-, ., tment eastward until itreaches the limits of its force and sinksforever in the Melanesian islands. Fora great distance the line of this easterndispersion is maritime. It seems totend in an insular direction. Only oncein its progress toward Australia andNew Guinea does it touch the Asiaticcontinent. Even that is in dispute ; butthe better view appears to be the onewhich makes the pre-Austral line crossthe southern peninsula of India and theisland of Ceylon. It is here that we find the remnants ofa Black race called the Veddahs. To

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