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is probable, they derive their origin. In stature they are tall; the features 
of their countenance are strongly marked; their eyes are large and beauti- 
ful; their nose is well proportioned ; their lips are tnin; and their teeth are 
white. Of the inhabitants of Nubia, on the contrary, the nose is flat, the 
lips are thick and prominent, and the countenance is exceedingly black. 
These Nubians, as well as the Barbarians, their western neighbors, are a 
species of negroes, not unlike those of Senegal. 
The first negroes we meet with, are those who live on the south side 
of Senegal. These people, as well as those who occupy the different terri- 
tories between Senegal and Gambia, are called Jalofes. ‘They are all very 
black, well proportioned, and of a size sufficiently tall. Their features are 
less harsh than those of the other negroes; and some of them there are, 
especially among the female sex, whose features are far from irregular. 
Among them, to be perfectly beautiful the color must be exceedingly black, 
and exceedingly glossy: their skin, however, is highly delicate and soft; 
and color alone excepted, we find among them women as handsome as in 
any other country in the world. They are usually very gay, lively, and 
amorous. 
Father du Tertre says expressly, that, if the negroes are for the most part © 
flat-nosed, it is because the parents crush the noses of their children; that 
in the same manner they compress their lips, in order to render them thick- 
er; and that of the few who have undergone. neither of these operations, 
the features of the countenance are as comely, the nose is as prominent, 
and the lips are as delicate as those of the Europeans. ' It appears, however, 
that among the negroes in general, thick lips anda nose broad and flat, 
are gifts from nature, by which was originally introduced, and at length 
established, their custom of flattening the nose and thickening the lips 
of such as at their birii discovered a deficiency in these ornaments. Though 
the negroes of Guinea are in general very healthy, yet they seldom. attain 
what we term old age. . 
The negroes in general are a remarkably innocent and inoffensive people. 
If properly fed, and unexposed to bad usage, they are contented, joyous and 
obliging ; and on their very countenances may we read the satisfaction 
of their souls. If hardly dealt with, on the other. hand, their spirits forsake 
them, and they droop with sorrow. 
Mr Kolben, though he has given so minute a description of the Horrrn- 
tors, is strongly of opinion, however, that they are negroes. Like that 
of the latter, he assures us, that their hair is short, black, frizzled, and 
woolly ; nor in a single instance did he ever observe it long. 
Though of all the Hottentots, the nose is very flat, and very broad, yet it 
would not be of that form, did not their mothers, considering a prominent 
nose as a deformity, think it a duty incumbent upon them to crush it pre- 
sently after their birth. ‘Their lips are also thick, and their upper lip is 
particularly so; their teeth are very white; their evebrows are thick ; their 
