200 Comparifon hctivecn the Human Race and SiviAt 



III. In regard to the Form of the Cranium. 



The whole difference between the cranium of a negro ana 

 that of ah European, is not in the lean degree greater than 

 that equally finking difference which exifts between the cra- 

 nium of the wild boar and that of the domeftic fwine. 

 Thofe who have not obferved this in the animals themfelves, 

 need only to caft their eye on the figure which Daubcnton 

 has given of both. 



I flia.ll pafs over lefs national varieties which may be found 

 amoiF fwine as well as among men, and only mention that 

 I have been affured by Mr. Sulzer that the peculiarity of 

 havino- the bone of the leg remarkably long, as is the cafe 

 amono- the Hindoos, has been remarked with regard to the 

 fwine in Normandy. " They ftand very long on their hind 

 legs," fays he, in one of his letters ; c< their back, therefore, 

 is hio-heft at the rump, forming a kind of inclined plane; 

 and the head proceeds in the fame direction, fo that the fnout 

 is not far from the ground." I fhall here add, that the fwine, 

 in fome countries, have degenerated into races which in fin- 

 cularity far exceed every thing that has been found ftrange 

 in bodily variety among the human race. Swine with folid 

 hoofs were known to the ancients, and large herds of them 

 are found in Hungary, Sweden, &c. In the like manner 

 the European fwine, firft carried by the Spaniards in 1509 

 to the ifland of Cuba, at that time celebrated for its pearl 

 fidiery, degenerated into a monftrous race, with hoofs which 

 were half a fpan in length *. 



* Herrera Hiftoria de '. Fnoi Occident. Madrid i6o», voh 

 p. 239. 



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