GENERAL COROLLARIES. 757 



their ancestors, the hair longer, softer, and less 

 curly ; the eyes more animated, the mouth smaller, 

 the nose more elevated, and all the features more 

 agreeable, with a corresponding improvement of 

 the intellectual faculties, and that the change 

 is much greater among domestic servants than 

 field labourers, who are more exposed to the sun. 

 I have also been informed by a highly intelligent 

 gentlemen of colour from St. Domingo, that he 

 has observed a considerable change of his own 

 complexion, and that of his countrymen in ge- 

 neral, after a few years residence in Paris or 

 London. 



From all the foregoing facts, we are authorized 

 to conclude, 



1. That if the climate of the whole earth had 

 been the same as that of central Africa near the 

 level of the sea, ever since the origin of mankind, 

 they would have been everywhere black, with 

 curly hair and dark eyes : 



2. That as the Greeks and Romans, Saxons 

 and Celts, came from southern Asia and northern 

 Africa, they must have originally been of the 

 same complexion and configuration as the present 

 Hindoos, Egyptians, and Moors, who are of a 

 dark brown colour : 



3. That if in all latitudes, the temperature of 

 the earth had always corresponded with that of 

 Britain, France, Germany, and Holland, there 

 would have been no black nor brown nations and 

 tribes : 



