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they appear as threads of silk. Their eyes are large, soft, and vet full of 
animation; their mouth is small and expressive of a smile, and their chin. 
what it ought to be, in order to form a perfect oval. Their neck and breasts 
are admirably formed; their stature is tall, and the shape of their body easy ; 
their skin is white as snow, and their hair of the most beautiful black.” 
The Turks, who purchase a vast number of those women as slaves, are 
a people composed of many different nations. From the intermixture, 
during the crusades, of the Armenians, the Georgians, and the Turecmans, 
with the Arabians, the Egyptians, and even the Europeans, it is hardly ressi- 
Sle to distinguish the native inhabitants of Asia Minor, of Syria, and of the 
sest of Turkey. All we can observe is, that the Turkish men are generally 
robust, and tolerably well made; that it is even rare to find among them 
persons either hump-backed or lame; that the women are also beautiful, 
well proportioned, and free from blemishes; that they are very fair, because 
they seldom stir from home; and that, when they do go abroad, they are 
always veiled. 
Before the Czar Peter I., we are told, the Muscovires had not merged from 
barbarism. Born m slavery, they were ignorant, brutal, cruel, without 
courage, and without manners. Men and women bathed promiscuously in 
bagnios, heated to a degree intolerable to all persons but themselves; and 
on quitting this warm bath, they plunged, like the Laplanders, into cold 
water. They are now a people in some degree civilized, and commercial, 
fond of spectacles, and of other ingenious novelties. 
From the regions of Europe and Asia, our attention is now to be directed 
to a race of people differing more from ourselves in external appearances, 
than any that has been hitherto mentioned. 
In the seventeenth or eighteenth degree of north latitude, on the African 
coast, we find the Necroes of Senegal and of Nubia, some in the neighber- 
hood of the ocean, and others of the Red Sea; and after them, all the other 
nations of Africa, from the latitude of eighteen north, to that of eighteen 
south, are black, the Ethiopians, or Abyssinians excepted. It appears, then, 
that the portion of the globe which nature has allotted to this race of men, 
contains an extent of ground, parallel to the equator, of about nine hundred 
leagues in breadth, and considerably more in length, especially northward 
of the equator. Beyond the latitude of eighteen or twenty, there are no 
longer any negroes, as will appear when we come to speak of the Caffres 
and of the Hottentots. 
By confounding them with their neighbors the Nubians, we have been long 
in an error, with respect to the color and the features of the Eruioprans. 
Marmol says, that the Ethiopians, (Abyssinians,) are absolutely black, that 
their visage is large, and their nose flat; and in this description the Dutch 
travellers agree with him. The truth, however, is, that they differ from 
the Nubians, both in color and in features. The skin of the Ethiopians is 
trown, or olive colored, like that of the southern Arabians, from whom, it 
