VARIETIES 



OF THE 



HUMAN SPECIES. 



THERE feem to be about fix varieties in the human fpecles, 

 each flrongly marked, and indicating little mixture. 



The firfl around the polar regions. The Laplanders, the Efquimaux 

 Indians, the Samoeid Tartars, the inhabitants of Nova Zembla, the 

 Borandians, the Greenlanders, and Kamfkatkadalcs, may be confidered 

 as one race of people, refembling each other in rtature, complexion, 

 and cudoms. Under a rigorous climate, of few prcdu6tions, and coarfc 

 provifions and fcanty, their bodies have been ftinted, and their com- 

 plexions changed, by cold, to a deep brown, often inclining to 

 blacknefs. Thtrfe people, in general, are of fhort ftature, and odd 

 Ihape, with countenances lavage, and manners barbarous. Their vifage 

 is large and broad, the nofe flat and fhort, the eyes yellowifh brown 

 inclining to biAck, the eye-lids drawn toward the temples, the cheek- 

 bones extremdy high, the mouth very large, the lips thick and turned 

 outwards, the voice thin and fqueaking, the head large, the hair black 

 and ftraight, th^ colour of the fkin dark greyifli. The generality are 

 about four feet high, the talleft five. The women refemble the men fo 

 nearly that one cannot, at firft, diftinguifh the fexes.. 



Stupidity, fuperflition, and cowardice, belong equally to thefe people : 

 yet they are dexterous in fkaiting, in conftruding their fledges, wherein 

 they are drawn over the fnow, in the ufe of the bow, and the dart, in 

 the management of their rein-deer; and thofe near the coafl", in fifliing. 

 They have few wants, wliich they eafiiy fupply, and Linnaus fays they 

 have more content and enjoyment than nations which efteem them bar- 

 "barous i and which in return they do not hef::ate to contemn as ill-bred 

 and unpolite. 



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