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monotony, which reigns in the countenances, that im- 

 movable veil of black which covert all the emotions of 

 the other race ? Add to these^ flowing hair, a more 

 elegant symmetry of forn), their own judgment in fa- 

 vour of the whites, declared by their ];reference of 

 them, as uniformly as is the preference of the Uranoo- 

 tan for the black women over those of his own species. 

 The circumstance of superior beauty, is thought wor- 

 thy attention in the propagation of our horses, dogs, 

 and other domestic animals ; why not in that of man ? 

 Besides those of colour, figure, and hair, there are other 

 physical distinctions proving a difference of race. They 

 have less hair on the face and body. They secrete less 

 by the kidneys, and more by the glands of the skin, 

 which gives tliem a very strong and disagreeable odour. 

 This greater degree of trans[)iration renders them more 

 tolerant of heat, and less so of cold than the whites. 

 Perhaps too a difference of structure in the pulmonary 

 apparatus, which a late ingenious''^ experimentalist has 

 discovered to be the princi[)al regulator of animal heat, 

 may have disabled them from extricating, in the act of 

 inspiration, so ujuch of that fluid from the outer air, or 

 obliged them in expiration, to part with more of it. 

 They seem to require less sleep. A black after hard 

 labour through the day, will be induced by the slightest 

 amusements to sit u|) till midnight, or later, though 

 knowing he must be out with the first dawn of the 

 morning. They are at least as brave, and more adven- 

 turesome. But this may perhaps proceed from a want 

 ot forethought, which prevents their seeing a danger 

 till it be present. — When present, they do not go through 

 it with more coolness or steadiness than the whites. 

 They are more ardent after their female : but love seems 

 with them to be more an eager desire, than a tender 

 delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation. Their 

 griefs are transient. Those numberless afilictiohs, 

 which render it doubtful whether heaven has given life 

 to us in mercy or iw wrath, are less felt, and sooner for- 



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