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leflual faculty, from the firft rudiments perceived in the monkey kind, 

 tx> the more advanced ftages of it in apes, in the oran-outang, that type 

 of man, and the Guiney Negroe; and afcending from the varieties of 

 this clafs to the lighter calls, until we mark its utmoft limit of pcr- 

 feflion in the pure White. Let us not then doubt, but that every 

 member of the creation is wifely fitted and adnpted to the certain ufes, 

 and confined within the certain bounds, to which it was ordained by 

 the Divine Fabricator. The meafure of the feveral orders and varie- 

 ties of thefe Blacks may be as compleat as that of any other race of 

 mortals; filling up that fpace, or degree, beyond which they are not 

 deftincd to pafs; and difcriminating them from the rell of men, not in 

 kind, but \n /pedes. 



The examples which have been given of Negroes born and trained 

 up in other climates, detract not from that general idea of narrow, 

 humble intelledt, which we affix to the inhabitants of Guiney. 

 We have feen /earned horfes, learned and even talking dogs, in Eng- 

 land ; who, by dint of much pains and tuition, were brought to 

 exhibit the figns of a capacity far exceeding what is ordinarily 

 allowed to be polTefiTed by thofe animals. I'he experiment has not 

 been fully tried with the oran-outangs; yet, from what has hitherto 

 been proved, this race of beings may, for aught we know to the 

 contrary, poflefs a fliare of intelledt, which, by due cultivation, 



tliverfity only ferves to llrengtlien my aTgument; theie is likewife a vaiietv in the colour of their 

 wool, for I have feen fome perfeiftly reddifh. 



The natives ot the Lidlan peninfula, betwixt the rivers Indus and Ganges in the Eaft Indies, 

 have the African black complexion, the European features, and the American lank hair, but all na- 

 tive and genuine. 



It is not a variety of climate that produces various complexions. Ameiica lies from 6f degrees 

 North lat. to 55 deg. South lat. comprehending all the various climates of Europe, Afia, Africa, 

 and America. The American complexion is every where peimanently the fame, only with more 

 or lefs of a metalline luilre. Between the Tropics, and in the high Northern latitudes, they are 

 paler; in the other parts, of a copper colour, have thin lips, jet black lank hair, and no beards; in 

 the high Northern and Southern latitudes, they are tall and robuft; between the Tropics thev are 

 (hort and fquat. Douglas. — The greatell alteration caufed by difference of climate feems to confift 

 in enlarging or depreffing the ftature ; relaxing or contrafting the mufcles, and articulations of the 

 limbs; lengthening or lliortening the bones; and, in confequence perhaps, rainng or depreffing, in 

 a fmall degree, fome particular features. The natives of Madagafcar have neither fiich flat nofes 

 nor dark complexions as the Guiney Negroes; there are fome of them faid to be mere hnciet/; and 

 moft of them have long hair : they are by mod travelers pronounced to be lively, intelligent, fenfi- 

 ble of gratitude, and poifeffed ct inany amiable qualities; fo that it is not without regrtty that tve 

 find them treated ast the nioJl abjcdt Haves by the French, on their fcttlements in Mauritius. ' 



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