Of this stock there are two very distinct groups: (1) the tall, blond,
straight, fair-haired, blue-eyed, light-skinned, well-bearded peoples of N.
Europe, Scandinavia, Scotland, N. Germany--named _Xanthochroi_
("yellow-haired" and pale of complexion) by Huxley: these have extended, as
a mixed race, also into N. Africa and Afghanistan; and by intermingling
with the Mongols have produced the Finns and the Lapps; and (2) the
_Melanochroi_ ("black-haired") people, shorter in stature, with long heads,
pale skins, prominent noses, but with black wavy hair and beards and dark
eyes, who inhabit S. Europe, N. Africa, and S.W. Asia, and are found also
in the British islands. They are known as Kelts, Iberians, Romans,
Pelasgians and Semites. The Dravidians of India, the Veddahs {209}of
Ceylon, and probably the Ainos of Japan and the Maoutze of China belong to
the Caucasian stock. The ancient Egyptians, of whom the Kopts and the
Fellahs of Egypt of to-day are the descendants, are pure _Melanochroi_.
(_Flower._)