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Gallas, under the line itself, are long haired and of 

 a brown colour; and proceeding to the south we 

 find tribes of the blackest Negroes. 



In America, in the same way, such variations of 

 colour as exist, do by no means correspond with 

 the variations of climate. The Indians of New 

 Spain, according to Humboldt, are more swarthy 

 than those of the warmest climates in America. 

 The people of the banks of the Rio Negro are 

 darker than those of the Lower Orinoco, though 

 living in a much cooler region. It is remarkable, 

 that this difference has much less observable effect 

 on the other varieties of mankind, than on the Cau- 

 casian race. 



The Germans of the present day retain the light 

 hair and characteristic complexion of their an- 

 cestors. The descendants of the Celtic tribes in 

 Europe, are still brown-haired, and darkish like 

 their progenitors. Nine centuries have not altered 

 the characteristics of the Normans in France, nor 

 eight those of the Caucasian Guebres in the sultry 

 island of Bombay. The descendants of the yellow- 

 haired Vandals are still to be found in Barbary, 

 and recognised by their colour. The Jews, scat- 

 tered by the fiat of Heaven over the face of the 

 whole earth, preserve in every latitude the colour 

 and peculiar physiognomy of their nation. It is, 

 however, much more easy to disprove any of the 

 theories that have been invented to account for the 

 varieties of mankind, than it is even to suggest any 

 probable cause for such tendency. For if we attempt 



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