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Remarks on the Human Species in the South-S a IJles 



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HUMAN 

 SPECIES. 



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MlRANTUR A.LIOUI ALTITUDINES MONTIUM, INGENTES FLUCTUS 



MARIS* ALTISSIMOS 



I.APSUS FLUMINUM, ET OCEANI AMBITUM, ET GYROS SIDERUM — ET. RELIN CVyUNT: 



SEIPSOS, NEC MIRANTUR. 



Aug7jjiinus. 



7he proper Jt'udj of mankind is MAN 



Pope 



rr^HOUGH we have many accounts of diftant regions, it has. 



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been a general misfortune, that their authors were either too. 



igriorant to colled; any valuable and ufeful obfervations, or defirous 

 of making a fhew with a fuperficial knowledge, have given us 

 their opinions,, embellifned with furmifes, and trite refledions, 

 borrowed from other writers. If they happened to be capable of 



collecting and communicating u 



feful information, relative to the 



ftudy of nature, they have ufually confined themfelves to the inani- 

 mate bodies of the creation ; or have principally confidered^part of 

 the brute ors-anic -, while 



" A creature form'd of earth - 



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Exalted from fo bafe original 



*' With heav'nly fpoils. 



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MitTON., 



is entirely negleded and forgotten, amongft other lefs important 



purfuits. 



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