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good deal from each other ; but they generally 

 agree in the colour of their bodies, the beauty of 

 their complexions, the largeness of their limbs, 

 and the vigour of their understandings. Those 

 arts which might have had their invention among 

 the other races of mankind, have come to perfec- 

 tion there. In barbarous countries, the inhabi- 

 tants go either naked, or are awkwardly clothed 

 in furs or feathers ; in countries semi-barbarous, 

 the robes are loose and flowing ; but here the 

 clothing is less made for show than expedition, 

 and unites, as much as possible, the extremes of 

 ornament and dispatch. 



To one or other of these classes we may refer 

 the people of every country ; and as each nation 

 has been less visited by strangers, or has had less 

 commerce with the rest of mankind, we find their 

 persons and their manners more strongly impress- 

 ed with one or other of the characters mentioned 

 above. On the contrary, in those places where 

 trade has long flourished, or where enemies have 

 made many incursions, the races are usually found 

 blended, and properly fall beneath no one charac- 

 ter. Thus, in the islands of the Indian Ocean, 

 where a trade has been carried on for time imme- 

 morial, the inhabitants appear to be a mixture of 

 all the nations upon the earth ; white, olive, brown, 

 and black men, are all seen living together in the 

 same city, and propagate a mixed breed, that can 

 be referred to none of the classes into which natu- 

 ralists have thought proper to divide mankind. 



Of all the colours by which mankind is diver- 

 sified, it is easy to perceive, that ours is not only 



