J44 Ohfervations on the Negroes. 



known, which has been already remarked by unprejudiced 5 

 travellers, as will appear by the following quotations. Le 

 Maire, in his Voyage to Cape Verd, Senegal, and Gam- 

 bia*, fays : " Blacknefs excepted, there are female negroes 

 as well made as our ladies in Europe." Leguat, in his well- 

 known Voyages f, tells us, that he found at Batavia feveral 

 very pretty negreffes, whofe faces had the perfect European 

 form. Adanfon, in his Account of Senegal %, fpeaking of 

 the female negroes there, has, the following paffagc : " The 

 women arc almoft as tall as the men, and equally well made. 

 Their (kin is remarkably fine and ioft : their eyes are black 

 and open ; the mouth and lips fmall, and the features are 

 well proportioned. Some of them are perfect beauties. They 

 are exceedingly lively, and have an eafy, free air, that is 

 highly agreeable." Ulloa, in his Notkias Atnericanas ||, ob- 

 ferves, that fome of the negroes have thick projecting lips, 

 a flat nofe, eves deeply funk in the fockets, which in gene- 

 ral are called gcliulos, and wool inftead of hair. lie then 

 adds : " Others, whofe colour is equally black, have features 

 perfectly like thofe of the whites, particularly in regard to 

 the nofe and the eyes, and fmooth but thick hair §." 



* Vovages aux Cap Verd, Senegal et Gamble, p 161. 



•f Vol. ii. p. 156. + Page 22. ji Pige 92. 



§ The following observations of an intelligent Danifh rravellermay ferve - 

 ft-ill further to confirm tkc truth of ProfelTor Blumenbach's pro r ofuion : 

 « Almoft all the negroes are of a good future, and the Akra negroes have 

 remark.iblv fine features. The contour of the face, indeed, among the ge- 

 nerality of thefe people, is different from that of the Europeans ; but at 

 the fame time faces are found among them which, excepting the black 

 colour, would in Europe be considered as beautiful. In common, how- 

 ever, they have foniething apifh. The cheek-bones and chin project very 

 much; and the bonys of the nofe are fmaller than among the European*" 

 Thisla'.t eiicumftance has probably given rife to the affcrtion, that the ne- 

 gro «Q!vn flatten t ~.e noies of their children afs loon its they are born. 

 But nofes may be fecn among fome of them as much elevated and as re- 

 gular as thofe of the Europeans. Their hair is woolly, curled and black, 

 hut ibmetimes rtd. When continually combed, it may be brought to the 

 length of half a yard ; but it never can be kept fmooth. See P. E. Iftrt 

 ' Reis aa Guinea. Dordrecht 1790. p. 175. Edit. 



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