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Yeco, northward of Japan. In summer they dwell 

 under tents made of skins of the rein-deer. In win- 

 ter they live ui.der ground, like the Laplanders and 

 the Samoeids, and, like them, sleep together promis- 

 cuously, and without the smallest distinction. They 

 likewise live to a great age, though they feed on no- 

 thing hut raw meat and fish. The savages of New- 

 foundland have a considerahle resemblance to those 

 of Davis's Straits : they are low in stature : they 

 have little or no beard : their visage is broad and flat : 

 their eyes are large : they are generally rather flat- 

 nosed ; and, upon the whole, are far from being un- 

 like the savages of the north continent, and of the en- 

 virons of Greenland. 



Besides these savages, who are scattered over the 

 most northern parts of America, we find greater num- 

 bers, and which are perfectly different, in Canada 

 and in the vast extent of land to the Assiniboils. 

 These are tolerably tall, robust, vigorous, and well 

 made. They have hair, and eyes black, teelh, very 

 white, a complexion, tawny, beard, scanty, and over 

 the whole of their body hardly a vestige of hair. They 

 are hardy, indefatigable walkers, and very nimble run- 

 ners. They are alike unaffected by excesses of hun- 

 ger, and of satiety. They are by nature bold and 

 fierce, grave and sedate. So strongly, indeed, do they 

 resemble the Oriental Tartars in the colour of the 

 skin, the hair, and the eyes, in the scantiness of beard, 

 and of hair, as also in disposition, and in manners, 

 that, were they not separated from each other by an 

 immense sea, we should conclude them to be descend- 

 ed from that nation. In point of latitude their situa- 

 tion is also the same, which still farther proves how 

 powerfully the climate influences, not only the colour, 

 but the figure of men. 



