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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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are, however, two minor branchesof the same stock sufficiently distinct torequire enumeration and notice. On theeastern slopes of the Peruvian moun-tains is found the tribe of the Atacamas,and on the Pacific coast of the same re- AYMARA WOMAN OF UPPER PLATEAU TYPE. Drawn by E. Ronjat, from a photograph. and changing geographical position. Inparticular should we attribute the differ-ences referred to to the varying eleva-tion above the sea. It can not be doubted that this cir-cumstance is strongly determinative of SOUTH AMERICANS.—ANTISIANS. 573 human character. The complexion, aswell as the physical parts, undergoes achange with almost every situation onthe earth. The Changos are muchdarker than the Ouichuas, from whomthey do not otherwise greatly differ. of the chain, where the mountains falloff into a broken and irregular countryof a much lower level than the centralrange. This geographical condition isdoubtlessly the circumstance which hasmostly differentiated the Antisian family
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CHILEAN ANDES.—Drawn by Riou, after a sketch by Andre. The development of the chest in theformer is less excessive than in the lat-ter, and this fact is clearly determinedby the lower level of the Changohabitat. We now advance to. the second gen-eral group of the Andean nations,namely, the Antisian family. ThisPosition of the race is distributed on thenttureao/^lly; eastern declivities of thecountry. Peruvian and Bolivian Cor- dilleras at some distance from the crest from the other divisions of the Andeannations. The country in the region occupied bythe Antisians breaks off into precipitousparts. It is quite unlike the open high-lands of Peru and Bolivia. Here moun-tain gorges appear. Here are vast un-explored dark valleys, filled with im-mense forests. Here are gathered intorushing streams the headwaters ofthose vast rivers that roll out to theAtlantic. The country which the Anti- 574 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. sian.s hold extends not quite to the equa-tor northward, and hardly as far

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