HUMAN SPECIi!.3. \> 



The Japanefe refemble the Chinefe, and rank in the fame clafs. They 

 differ in being rather browner, as they inhabit a more fouthern climate. 



A third variety in the human fpecies, is the fouthern Afiatics. The 

 nations of the Peninfular India, feem to be the ftock whence the 

 iflands fcattered in the Indian ocean, have been peopled. They are, 

 in general, of a (lender (hape, with long ftraight black hair, and often 

 Roman nofes. Thus they refemble Europeans in ftature and features ; 

 but greatly differ in colour, and habit of body. The Indians are of an 

 olive colour, in the more fouthern parts, quite black j the women are 

 extremely delicate. The Indians are cowardly and effeminate ; the 

 warmth of their climate influences their manners ; flothful, fubmiflive, 

 luxurious ; fatisfied with fenfual happinefs without mental pleafure ; con- 

 tented with (lavery, they readily obey any mafter. Many tribes among 

 them eat nothing that has life ; but are fearful of killing the meanelt 

 infedt. To this clafs we may reter the Perfians and Arabians. 



The fourth variety in the human fpecies, is the- Negroes, which 

 blacken the fouthern parts of Africa, from i8 degrees north to the 

 Cape of Good Hope. The Caffres, indeed, who inhabit the fouthern 

 extremity of that large continent, differ fomewhat in colour and features, 

 but may be grouped together. Negro nations alfo differ : peculiar 

 countries, as in Europe, pride themfelves on their beauty. Thofe of 

 Guinea are ugly, and of ill fccnt; thofe of Mofambique are reckoned 

 beautiful, and have no ill fmell. Negroes, in general, are of a black 

 colour, with a fofc fmooth Ikin, proceeding from the downy foftnefs 

 of the hair growing on it. The hair of their heads is foft, woolly, and 

 fhort. The beard, alfo, partakes of the fame qualities ; but foon 

 turns grey, which the hair rarely does ; fo that white beards, and 

 black hair occur together. Their eyes are generally a deep hazle ; their 

 nofes flat and lliort ; their lips thick and tumid j their teeth of ivory 

 whitenefs. The climate feems alfo to relax their mental powers; they 

 are, in general, ftupid, indolent, and m.ifchievous.x The many colonies of 

 Arabians who migrated fouth into Africa, have become fcarce diflinguifhable 

 from the original natives. As alfo the Portuguefe, who, about two cen- 

 turies ago, lettled along this coaft, are become almoft as black as the 

 Negroes, and equally barbarous. 



A fifth race, different in colour, as diftinfl in habitation, is the na- 

 tives of America (except in the northern extremity, where they refemble 

 the Laplanders) : thefe are of a red or copper colour ; nearly all of one 

 colour; have black, thick, ftrait hair; and thin black beards; which they 



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