a88 Somparifon between the Human Race and Swine. 

 which this animal has fince degenerated, belong, with the 

 original European race, to one and the fame fpecies ; and 

 fince no bodily difference is found in the human race, as 

 will prefently appear, either in regard to ftature, colour, the 

 form of the cranium, &c. which is not obferved in the fame 

 proportion among the fwine race, while no one, on that ac- 

 count, ever doubts that all thefe different kinds are merely 

 varieties that have arifen from degeneration through the in- 

 fluence of climate, &c. this comparifon, it is to be hoped, 

 will filence thofe fceptics who have thought proper, on ac- 

 eount of thefe varieties in the human race, to admit more 

 than one fpecies. 



I. In regard to Stature. 



In this refpec~l the Patagonians *, as is well known, have 

 afforded the greater! employment to anthropologifts. The 

 romantic tales, however, of the old travellers, who give to 

 thefe inhabitants of the fouthern extremity of America a 

 ftature of ten feet and more, are fcarcely worth notice ; and 

 even the more modeft relations of later Englifh navigators, who 

 make their height from fix to feven feet, have been doubted 

 by other travellers, who, on the fame coaff, fought for fuch 

 children of Enoch in vain. But we ffiall admit every thing 

 faid of the extraordinary fizeof thefe Patagonians, by Byron, 

 Wallis, and Carteret, the firft of whom f affigns to their 

 chief, and feveral of his attendants, a height of not lefs than 

 feven feet, as far as could be determined by the eye ; the fe- 

 cond J, who afterts that he actually meafured them, gives to 

 the greater part of them from 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet; to, 

 fome 6 feet 5 inches, and 6 feet 6 ; but to the tailed, 6 feet 7 

 inches: and this account is confirmed by the lafl-mentioned 



* Or rather Fata-chonians, for the people themfelves arc called Cbonou 

 and becaufe their feet, covered with raw hides, gave them a likenefs to 

 a bear's paws, they were called by the firft Spanifh navigators jata- 

 cbonos. See Foritcr in Comment. Soc. Scinit.Gotti>;genf. vol. iii. p. 127. 



f Hawkehvorth's Collection of Voyages, London, 1773. vol, %, p. 27. 



* Ibid. p. 133. 



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