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the result of their different degrees of wealth or 

 power." That they come from one stock is evi- 

 dent also from this, that the Tartars who settle in 

 China quickly resemble the Chinese ; and, on the 

 contrary, the Chinese who settle in Tartary soon 

 assume the figure and the manners of the Tar- 

 tars. 



The Japanese so much resemble the Chinese, 

 that one cannot hesitate to rank them in the 

 same class. They only differ in being rather 

 browner, as they inhabit a more southern climate. 

 They are, in general, described as of a brown 

 complexion, a short stature, a broad flat face, a 

 very little beard, and black hair. Their customs 

 and ceremonies are nearly the same ; their ideas 

 of beauty similar ; and their artificial deformities 

 of blackening the teeth, and bandaging the feet, 

 entirely alike in both countries. They both, 

 therefore, proceed from the same stock ; and al- 

 though they differ very much from their brutal 

 progenitors, yet they owe their civilization wholly 

 to the mildness of the climate in which they 

 reside, and to the peculiar fertility of the soil. 

 To this tribe, also, we may refer the Cochin- 

 Chinese, the Siamese, the Tonquinese, and the 

 inhabitants of Aracan, Laos, and Pegu, who, 

 though all differing from the Chinese, and each 

 other, nevertheless have too strong a resem- 

 blance not to betray their common original. 



Another, which makes the third variety in the 

 human species, is that of the southern Asiatics ; 

 the form of whose features and persons may be 

 easily distinguished from those of the Tartar 



