Robert Brown 
Races of Mankind [PDF ebook] 
A Popular Description of the Characteristics, Manners and Customs of the Principal Varieties of the Human Family

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Here is a very distinct family of the Americans, that extends across the whole northern coast of the American continent, from Behring Strait on the one side to Greenland on the other, coming as far south as Labrador on the Atlantic and the Yukon River on the Pacific sea-board, but throughout all this large area remaining a very distinct and characteristic people, not differing very widely either in habits or language. The Laps and Samoyedes of the European coast.