Obfervalhns on the Negroes. I4T 



downwards, fie was thirty-five inches high at his birth, 

 and is now thirty-nine ; fo that he has grown four inches in 

 nearly as many months. Elephants are always meafurcd at 

 the moulder ; for the arch or curve of the back, of young 

 Ques particularly, is coniiderably higher than any other 

 part, and it is a fure fign of old age whenever this curve is 

 found flattened or confiderably deprefled, after an elephant 

 has once attained his full growth. 



Though thefe remarks, as well as feveral others in the 

 above relation, do not come within "the plan I propofed, 

 which was merely to defcribe the method of taking wild ele- 

 phants in the province of Tipura, yet I hope they will not 

 be deemed impertinent or fupcrfluous, efpecially as feveral 

 «f them tend to eilabliih fome important facts in the na- 

 tural hiftory of this animal, that are not known, or not 

 attended to, at lcaft in any accounts that I had an oppor- 

 tunity of feeing. 



V. Obfirvations on the bodily Conformation and mental Ca- 

 pacity of the Negroes. By Prof- for Blumexbach. Fro?n 

 Magazin fur das neuciie aus der Phylik, Vol. W. 



JL/URING a tour which I made through SwifTerland, I 

 L\v 111 the picture-gallery at Pommersfcld four negro heads 

 bv Vandyk, two of which in particular had the lines of 

 the face fo regular that the features feemed very little dif- 

 ferent from the European. At that time, as I'had never had 

 an opportunity of acquiring a proper knowledge refpecling 

 the form of thene<rro head and cranium, by ftudying nature, 

 and as I remembered that Mr. Camper, in a difiertation 

 read in the Academy of Painting at Amilerdam, had men- 

 tioned that the greater part of the moft eminent painters, and 

 efpecially Rubens, Vandyk and Jordaens, when they painttjd 

 Moors, copied from Europeans, whole faces had been black- 

 ened lor that purpofe, I afcriJjeU the European look of the 



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