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climates, and which they never lofe, except by fuch difeafes, or cafu- 

 alties, as deftroy tlie texture of it ; for example, the leprofy, and ac- 

 cidents of burning or fcalding. Negroes have been introduced into the . 

 North American colonies near 1 50 years. The winters, efpecially at 

 New York and New England, are more fevere than in Europe. Yet 

 the Blacks born here, to the third and fourth generation, are not at all 

 different in colour from thofe Negroes who are brought dire(^ly from 

 Africa ; whence it may be concluded very properly, that Negroes, or 

 their pofterity, do not change colour, though they continue ever fo 

 long in a cold climate. 



Secondly, A covering of wool, like the beftial fleece, inftead of 

 hair. 



Thirdly, The roundnefs of their eyes, the figure of their ears, tu- 

 mid noftrils, flat nofes, invariable thick lips, and general large fize of 

 the female nipples, as if adapted by nature to the peculiar conformation 

 of their childrens mouths. 



Fourthly, The black colour of the lice which infeft. their bodies. 

 This peculiar circumftance I do not remember to have feen noticed 

 by any naturalifl; ; they refemble the white lice in fhape, but in ge- 

 neral are of larger fize. It is known, that there is a very great va- 

 riety of thefe infects; and fome fay, that almofl: all animals have their 

 peculiar fort. 



Fifthly, Their beftial or fetid fmell, which they all have in a 

 greater or lefs d<gree ; the Congo's, Arada's, Quaqua's, and Angola's, 



were ! Fuvther, as this change is fuppofeJ by Mr. Buffon to be gradual, fome proof of it would 

 doubtlefs appenr in the courfe of one or two centinies. But we do not find, that the pollerity of 

 thofe Europeans, who Hrlt fettled in the hottell parts ol the Wefl Indies, are tending towards this 

 black complexion, or are more tawny than an Englifliman might become by redding five or fix 

 years in Spain, and expofing himfelt to the fun and air during his refidence. It would likewife 

 happen, that the progeny of Negroes brought from Guiney two hundred years ago, and tranf- 

 planted into a colder climate, would be comparatively lefs black than the natives ot that part of 

 Atrica, from whence their progenitors were removed ; but no fuch effeft has been obferved. And 

 ialHy, the whole fabric of Mr. Bulfon's hypothefis is fubverted at once, by the race of j^iiJ/iocs, 

 in the very heart of Guiney ; who, although fubjed to the fame intenfe heat of climate, which, 

 he fa)s, has caufed the black colour of Negroes, are unaccountably exempted from the ir.fiuerkce 

 of this caufe, though equally expofed to it. Without puzzling our wiis, to difcover the occult 

 j eaufcj of this divcrfity of colour among mankind, let us be content with acknowledging, that 

 •i ' it was jail as eafy for Omnipotence to create black-lkinned, as whiie-lkinncd men ; or to create 

 ftve million.' of human beings, as to create one fuch being. 



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