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have investigated northern antiquities, to the Tatar race : 

 but their countenance is now completely Mongolian, ac- 

 cording to the reports of the most accurate observers, and 

 to a Yakut skull in my collection. Thus also it has been 

 observed that the Creole offspring of European parents in 

 the West-Indian islands have, in some degree, exchanged 

 their native British features for those characteristic of the 

 American aborigines, and have acquired their deeper eyes 

 and higher cheeks. He adds, that the northern invaders, 

 who have at diiFerent times entered India, have gradually 

 assumed the character which the climate has impressed on 

 the native Hindoos. 



" 3. Nations, which can be deemed only colonies of one 

 and the same race, have acquired different characteristic 

 countenances in different climates. It is now proved that 

 the Hungarians and Laplanders come from one stock. The 

 latter have acquired, in their northern abodes, the cast of 

 countenance peculiar to the inhabitants of those cold re- 

 gions ; while the former have assumed a more elegant for- 

 mation in their milder seats near Greece and Turkey *." 



That so able a writer could find no better proofs in sup- 

 port of his opinion, only shews how completely unfounded 

 that opinion is. 



The fiat face of the Chinese not only extends throughout 

 that vast empire, which covers nearly forty degrees of latitude 

 and seventy of longitude, but also over the neighbouring 

 regions of central and northern Asia, the north of Europe 

 and of America : over a very large portion of the globe, 

 including every possible variety of heat and cold, eleva- 

 tion and lowness, moisture and dryness, wood, marsh, and 

 plain. 



That European "Creoles in the West Indies, in America, 

 and in the East, have preserved their native features in all 

 instances where no intermixture of blood has occurred, is 

 proved by the uninterrupted experience of the Spaniards, 

 Portuguese, and English, who have had foreign colonies, in 



* Dc G. JL Far. Nat. sect. iii. ^ 57. 



