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country, the inhabitants of the valleys are taller than 

 those of the hills. 



As to the form of the face, it probably does not 

 depend altogether upon merely physical causes. Our 

 ideas of beauty and deformity are very different ; and, 

 by degrees, mankind are moulded to that shape, or to 

 those features, which according to our habits of reflec- 

 tion, appear handsome and becoming. In this manner 

 casual deformities may in time become natural ; and be 

 perpetuated, or even increased, through successive ge- 

 nerations. 



From this cursory survey of mankind, it may be inferred, 

 that all the variations in the human figure, as far as they 

 differ from our own, are produced by the climate, the 

 manner of living, or the institutions of the country. The 

 European figure and complexion may therefore be con- 

 sidered as the standards to which all the other varieties 

 must be referred, or with which they may be compared, 

 In proportion as other nations approach nearer to Euro- 

 pean beauty, the less they may be said to have degene- 

 rated ; and, in proportion as they recede, to have further 

 deviated from the original form impressed on them by 

 their Creator. 



CLASS I. MAMMALIA. 



LJNNJEUS divides mammalious animals, or those tvhtch 

 suckle their young, into seven orders ; and these are chiefly 

 regulated by the number and situation of the teeth, 



I. PRIMATES, or animals having two canine and four 

 cutting teeth, and furnished with two pectoral teats. To 

 this class he refers Man, the ape, the maucauco, and the 

 bat. 



II. BRUTA, or animals which have no cutting teeth in 

 either jaw ; as the elephant, the sloth, the ant-eater, &c. 



