CONCLUSIONS 213 



(403.) The inhabitants of New Holland, like its animals 

 are the most grotesque and uncouth of all races, (433.) 



452. The same parallelism holds good elsewhere, though 

 not always in so remarkable a degree. In America, espe- 

 cially, while the aboriginal race is as well distinguished from 

 other races as is its flora, the minor divisions are not so 

 decided. Indeed, the facilities, or we might sometimes 

 rather say necessities, arising from the varied supplies of 

 animal and vegetable food in the several regions, might be 

 expected to involve, with his corresponding customs and 

 modes of life, a difference in the physical constitution of 

 man, which would contribute to augment any primeval dif- 

 ferences. It could not indeed be expected, that a people 

 constantly subjected to cold, like the people of the North, 

 and living almost exclusively on fish, which is not to be 

 obtained without great toil and peril, should present the same 

 characteristics, either bodily or menta , as. those who idly 

 regale on the spontane >us bounties of tropical vegetation 



