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florid ill the face. The ancient and modern Germans 

 belong to this variety, and generally the Danes, 

 Dutch, Swedes, English, §-c. 



.Lastly, a race very extensive is found with skin of 

 a brownish white, and dark brown or black hair. 

 The Southern Europeans and Western Asiatics are 

 of this character. 



2. The second grand variety in human colour is 

 yellow or olive. This characterizes all the Mon- 

 golian tribes, and, generally speaking, most of the 

 natives of Upper Asia. 



3. Is the red or copper colour, which in various 

 shades is prevalent over the entire American con- 

 tinent, and chiefly confined to it. 



4. Brown or tawny. This in lighter or darker 

 variations belongs to the inhabitants of the peninsula 

 of Malacca, and is extended through most of the 

 islands of the Pacific Ocean. 



5. Black, in an amazing variety of shades, cha- 

 racterizes all the African continent, the northern 

 and southern parts excepted, New Holland, Van 

 Dieman's Land, New Guinea, New Hebrides, and 

 some other islands of the South Sea. It is mingled 

 with the ordinary colour of the natives in Brazil, 

 California, and India. 



It is not to be supposed that these different co- 

 lours, thus generally described, prevail each of them 

 uniformly in all the individuals of the race ; on the 

 contrary, there are considerable gradations, and even 

 tribes have been found among the Americans, and 

 individuals are constantly produced in each respec- 



