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the parents. There was no vestige of any violence ; but the 

 form of the nose was naturally different from that of white 

 children. Camper* examined, several years ago, with 

 the same view, Negroes of various ages, including foetuses. 

 He observed nothing particular in the nose ; but he con- 

 cluded that this organ will be less prominent, other circum- 

 stances remaining the same, when the parts below it come 

 forwards, and that the lips must be larger and thicker, in 

 order to cover the teeth completely. 



" My friend Blumenbach asserts, from the examination 

 of two Negro children in the Royal Museum at Gottingen, 

 what BuFFON also maintained, that the flat noses are con- 

 genital, not artificial ; and refers to the engravings of 

 RuYscH and Seba in confirmation of the same point. Loder 

 possesses a Negro embryo of four, or four months and a 

 half, in which the peculiar form of the nose and jaws is 

 very plain f." 



These arguments receive a further confirmation from 

 three of the crania engraved by Blumenbach J 3 of a Jew- 

 ish girl, five years old ; a Burat child, a year and a half; and 

 a newly-born Negro ; in which the characters of the Cau- 

 casian, Mongolian, and Ethiopian varieties are as strongly 

 represented as in the heads of adults. 



* In his Lecture on the Origin and Colour of the Blacks, describing the 

 foetus of an Angola Negress, he says," You see that the nose, the lips, the 

 whole face, correspond completely to those of adult Africans ; you may be 

 convinced that the nose is not depressed after birth, but that an immature 

 being like this has already every lineament of its race." Kleinere Schriften ; 

 p. L St. 1. p. 43. 



+ Ueher die Korp. Versch. \ 4. Ludwig gives a similar testimony re- 

 specting two Negro embryos in his collection. Grundriss der Naturges- 

 chichte der Menschen Species, ^ 148. p. 121. 



+ Dec. altera, tab. 28, 29, 30. 



