ANIMALS. 391 



ivoild, there seem to be not above six' distinct varieties in the 

 human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks 

 the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is 

 nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their 

 coming from different originals ; and the varieties of climate, of 

 nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change. 



The first distinct race of men is found round the polar regions. 

 The Laplanders, the Esquimaux Indians, the Samceid Tartars, 

 the inhabitants of Nova Zembla, the Borandians, the Green* 

 landers, and the natives of Kamtschatka, may be considered as 

 one peculiar race of people, all greatly resembling each other in 

 their stature, their complexion, their customs, and their igno- 

 rance. These nations being under a rigorous climate, where the 

 productions of nature are but few, and the provisions coarse and 

 unwholesome, their bodies have shrunk to the nature of their 

 food ; and their complexions have suflfered, from cold, almost a 

 similar change to what heat is known to produce ; their colour 

 being a deep brown, in some places inclining to actual blackness. 

 These, therefore, in general, are found to be a race of short 

 stature and odd shape, with countenances as savage as their 

 manners are barbarous. The visage in these countries, is large 

 and broad, nose flat and short, the eyes of a yellowish brown, 

 inclining to blackness, the eyelids drawn towards the temples, 

 the cheek-bones extremely high, the mouth very large, the lips 

 thick and turned outwards, the voice thin and squeaking, the 

 head large, the hair black and straight, the colour of the skin of 

 a dark grayish.^ They are short in stature, the generality not 

 being above four feet high, and the tallest not above five. Among 

 all these nations the w-omen are as deformed as the men, and 

 resemble them so nearly, that one cannot at first distinguish 

 the sexes among them. 



These nations not only resemble each other in their deformity, 

 their dwarfishness, the colour of their hair and eyes, but they 

 have, in a great measure, the same inclinations, and the same 

 manners, being all equally rude, superstitious, and stupid. The 

 Danish Laplanders have a large black cat, to which they com- 

 municate their secrets, and consult in all their aflfairs. Among 



1 I have taken four of these varieties from Linnaeus ; those of tlie Lap- 

 landers and Tartars from Mr Buffon. 



2 Krantz 



