nd colonisation, was quite sufficient to obliterate the
traces of earlier migrations.

_Consanguinity._--A comparison of the Tasmanian with the European, would
discredit a common root; but the wide spread family of man exhibits all
the shades and varieties, by which the extremes are connected.
Strzelecki observes, that to account for this connection, is not less
vainly attempted than an explanation of the existence of marsupials: but
the cases are not comparable. The difficulty, in reference to the human
race, is resolved by its intermixture: nature mingles none but kindred
blood.

_Stature._--The man of Tasmania, is from four and a-half to five and
a-half feet high. The skin is blueish black; less glossy than the native
of the continent. The facial angle is from 73 deg. to 85 deg.. The features of
the women are masculine: the mammae become pyriform, and elongate in
nursing. The hair is black, and woolly; sometimes luxuriant,
occasionally long and glossy. The eyes are full: the eyelid dropping:
the iris dark brown: the pupil large, and jet black. The forehead is
high, narrow, and running to a peak: the malar bones are prominent, the
cheeks hollow, the breast arched and full: the limbs round, lean, and
muscular: the hands small; the feet flat, and turned inwards. The frame
does not differ from the common structure of man, and by science is not
pronounced inferior, according to the rules of phrenologists.[29]

_General Appearance._--The impression made upon spectators by the
Tasmanian race, has been curiously various. By some, they are said to be
the lowest in their physical organisation, their mental capacity, and
their social condition. Those who saw them at the same period, and
compared them with the inhabitants of Port Jackson, differed entirely in
their estimate. In the aged women, there was little to admire: of them,
even Mr. Backhouse speaks with unwonted emotion: they reminded him of
the ourang outang; they were hideous! but he thought the younger women
more agreeable. Another visitor in 1830 describes them as having small
hollow eyes, broad noses, nostrils widely distended; jaws like the
ourang outang; thin limbs; shapeless bodies; and a hideous expression of
countenance! Cook described them as having lips not remarkably thick;
their noses moderately flat. Labillardiere noticed a peculiar projection
in the upper jaw of children, which recedes in adult age. They certainly
do not correspond with our notions of be