| Abstract: |
TO judge from external appearance, that is to say, from shape, size, and feature, there is one very extensive nation that inhabits the east of Asia. It includes the Eastern and Western Tartars of the Chinese authors, the Calmucs the Chinese, the Japponese, the Malays and other tribes inhabiting what is called the Peninsula of India beyond the Ganges: and the islands to the south and east of this, as far at least as New Guinea. This, however, is speaking in a very general sense, and many foreign races being intermixed with the nation, and, perhaps, many tribes belonging to it, being featured beyond the limits I have mentioned.
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