OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. -Uii) 



tices have kept the race uncommonly pure ; accordingly, 

 their colour and tlieir characteristic features are still the 

 same under every diversity of climate and situation. 



The advocates for the power of climate have made very 

 erroneous representations respecting tliese people ; assert- 

 ing that their colour is every where modified hy the situation 

 they occupy. The Jews, like all the native people adjoin- 

 ing their original seats, have naturally a white skin and the 

 other attributes of the Caucasian race. In hot countries 

 they become brown by exposure, as an European does, but 

 they experience no other influence from climate. Their 

 children are born fair ; and the countenance and other cha- 

 racters are everywhere preserved in remarkable purity, 

 because their religion forbids all intermixture with other 

 races. Dr. Buchanan met, on the coast of Malabar, with 

 a tribe, who represented that their ancestors had migrated 

 from Palestine after the destruction of the temple by Titus, 

 and who have preserved their native colour and form amidst 

 the black inhabitants of the country, excepting in instances 

 where they have intermarried with the Hindoos. Those of 

 pure blood are called White Jews, in contradistinction from 

 the others, who are termed Black Jews *. 



The foregoing facts sufficiently prove, that native diffe- 

 rences in general, and particularly that of colour, do not de- 

 pend on extraneous causes : I have an observation or two 

 to make on some other points. That the curled state of the 

 hair in the African is not produced by heat, appears from its 

 being found in many situations not remarkable for high 

 temperature, as in the Moluccas, New Guinea, Mallieollo, 

 Borneo, New Holland, and even in the cold regions of Van 

 Diemen's Land ; as well as from the hot regions of Asia and 

 America being inha.bited by long-haired races. 



The woolly appearance of the Negro hair is just opposite 

 to that which hot climates have been said to produce in the 

 covering of sheep in which it is represented that hair is pro- 

 duced instead of wool. When we contrast the hairy coat of 

 the argalior mouflon with the beautiful fleeces of our most va- 



* Christian Researches in Asia; section, On the Jews. 



