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the manners and cudonis are very different. As to the white Ne- 

 groes, and the fpo'ted or pyebakl Men that a Swedidi officer, Stra- 

 lenberg, fays he faw in Siberia, I hold them not to be natural 

 diftindions, but the effects of difeafe. 



2do^ The diftindion of great and fmall, not only among indivi- 

 duals and families of the fame nation, but among different njitions, 

 I hold alfo to be a natural diflindlon, independent of climate, food, 

 or manner of living. 



pio^ I hold that there is a natural difference betwixt the faces and 

 fhapes of men In different nations and countries. Thus, both the 

 features and the fhape of an African Black are very different from 

 thofe of an Eaft Indian. And there is a very great difference betwixt 

 men in the colour and quality of their hair, as well as of their fkln. 

 All the inhabitants of Afia, Africa, and America, without exception, as 

 far as I know, are black haired ; and fome of them have woolly hair, 

 fuch as the Negroes of Guinea : But a confiderable part of the inha- 

 bitants of Europe are fair or brown or red haired, or different fliades of 

 thefe colours, fuch as the Swedes and Danes and a great part of the 

 Germans, and fuch as of old all the weftern nations of Europe, and 

 particularly the Gauls, were, that being the complexion of the whole 

 Celtic race. But, at prefent, the inhabitants of France have almoft 

 all black hair, which perfuades me that the Franks were originally 

 a nation that came from the Eaft, where the Tartars, who now 

 inhabit that country, are at this day all black haired. The Greeks, 

 fome of whom were, at the time of the Trojan war, as we learn 

 from Homer, yellow haired *, are now black haired \ and fo are the 

 Italians. And, as to the Britlfh, I am perfuaded they were of old 

 all of the Celtic complexion : Nor do I believe that, two thoufand 

 years ago, there was one black haired man in Great Britain. Biit 

 now the people are fo much mixed of fuch different races, that 



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* Homer gives Menelaus the epithet of |«v^05, and the hair cf Achilles was alfo 



yellow. 



