MAN. 



ficiency in the amiable qualities of the 

 heart. The former gives us a most in- 

 teresting portrait of the chief of a tribe : 

 " His countenance was strongly marked 

 with the habit of reflection ; vigorous in 

 his mental, and amiable in his personal 

 qualities, Gaika was at once the friend 

 and ruler of a happy people, who univer- 

 sally pronounced his name with transport, 

 and blessed his abode as the seat of feli- 

 city." Alas ! many European kings 

 \vould appear to very little advantage by 

 the side of this savage. The drawings 

 and busts executed by the wild Boshmen, 

 in the neighbourhood of the Cape, are 

 praised by the same traveller, for their 

 accuracy of outline, and correctness of 

 proportion. 



Instances are by no means wanting, of 

 Negroes who have distinguished them- 

 selves in literature and the arts, when fa- 

 voured by fortune with opportunities of 

 education and improvement. Freidig in 

 Vienna \vas a capital performer on the 

 violin, and an excellent draftsman. Han- 

 nibal, a colonel of artillery in the Russian 

 service, was very well informed in the 

 mathematical and physical sciences ; as 

 also was Lislet, of the isle of France, who 

 was made on that account a corresponding 

 member of the French academy. Fuller, 

 of Maryland, was an extraordinary exam- 

 ple of arithmetical knowledge : being 

 asked in company how many seconds a 

 man had lived, who was seventy years 

 and some odd months old, he gave the 

 number in a minute and a half: on rec- 

 koning it, a different result was obtained ; 

 " you have forgotten the leap years," 

 says the Negro : the necessary addition 

 brought it right. A. W. Amo took the 

 degree of doctor in philosophy at Wit- 

 tenberg, in 1734, and produced two inge- 

 nious and well-written dissertations : and 

 Vasa and Ignatius Sancho have distin- 

 guished themselves as literary characters 

 in this country. Blumenbach, after men- 

 tioning these instances in his Beytrage 

 zur Naturgeschichte, sarcastically ob- 

 serves, that entire and large provinces of 

 Europe might be named, which had not 

 furnished such good writers, poets, philo- 

 sophers, and correspondents of the French 

 academy ; and he adds, that no savage 

 people have given such strong indications 

 of a capability of improvement, and even 

 of scientific cultivation, as the Negroes ; 

 and consequently, that none can approach 

 more nearly to the polished nations of the 

 globe. Let us conclude, then, with the 

 quaint, but humane observations of the 

 preacher, who called the Negro " God's 



image, like ourselves, although carved in 

 ebony." 



We shall conclude the present article 

 with giving the generic character of 

 man ; and a general description of the 

 five varieties, into which the human race 

 has been divided by Blumenbach. 



Generic character : erect, two-handed; 

 prominent chin. Teeth of uniform height 

 in an unbroken series ; the lower incisors 

 perpendicular. 



As we have shewn, on the one hand, 

 that there is no circumstance of differ- 

 ence between the varieties of the human 

 race, which does not appear in a still 

 greater degree among animals, chiefly of 

 the domesticated kinds, arising from the 

 ordinary sources of degeneration; so 

 there is no point, whether of colour, 

 countenance, or stature, which does not 

 pass by imperceivable gradations into the 

 opposite character, rendering all these 

 distinctions merely relative, and reducing 

 them to differences in degree. Hence it 

 is obvious, that any division of the varie- 

 ties of tiie human race must be in a great 

 measure arbitrary. For the same reason, 

 one or two characters are not sufficient 

 for determining the race, but an union of 

 several is required ; and even this is ex- 

 posed to many exceptions in each va- 

 riety. 



1. Caucasian, variety. White skin, red 

 cheeks, brownish hair, head of a some- 

 what globular form; oval and straight 

 face, with features moderately separate 

 from each other, expanded forehead, nar- 

 row and rather aqueline nose, and small 

 mouth : front teeth of both jaws perpen- 

 dicular ; lips gently turned out, and chin 

 full and rounded. 



It includes the Europeans (excepting 

 the Laplanders, and rest of the Finnish 

 race) ; the Western Asiatics, as far as the 

 river Ob, the Caspian sea, and the Gan- 

 ges; and the northern Africans. 



The name of this variety is derived 

 from Mount Caucasus, because in its 

 neighbourhood we meet with the most 

 beautiful race of men in the world, viz. 

 the Georgians. From the accounts of 

 numerous travellers, who all agree on 

 this subject, we select the remark of 

 Chardin: "The blood of Georgia is the 

 finest in the East, and I may say in the 

 world. I have not observed a single 

 ugly countenance in that country in either 

 sex ; but have seen numerous angelic 

 ones. Nature has bestowed on the 

 women graces and charms, which we see 

 in no other place. It is impossible to 

 look at them without loving them. More 



