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diminished respiration in hot climates, the natives 

 of central Africa, (including the great Desert of 

 Sahara) New Holland, New Guinea, Sumatra, and 

 Borneo, are greatly inferior in stature, muscular 

 strength, size and configuration of the brain, 

 beauty of features, intellectual and moral endow- 

 ments, to the inhabitants of temperate and warm 

 climates. For example, Mr. Lawrence found the 

 average height of five negroes, who were descended 

 from native Africans, to be five feet six inches. 

 And it is stated in the Phrenological Journal, by 

 the surgeon of the ship Blossom, commanded by 

 Captain Beechy, that the general height of the 

 negroes brought from tropical Africa to Rio Ja- 

 neiro, was about five feet five inches. (Vol. iv. 

 p. 624.) 



Nor is it less certain, that the Affghans of 

 northern India are a large, athletic, and power- 

 ful race, compared with the tropical Hindoos, 

 who, although evidently belonging to the same 

 original stock, do not exceed five feet six inches 

 in height. The same difference exists between 

 the northern and southern Chinese, the natives 

 of Persia, Turkey, Georgia, Circassia, and the 

 Arabs of southern Asia and northern Africa, in- 

 cluding the Egyptians. The Patagonians, the 

 Araucoans of Chili, and other tribes that inhabit 

 the temperate latitudes of South America, like 

 the North American Indians in corresponding 

 latitudes, are also much larger, stronger, and 



