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VARIE- peculiar to every country we have vifited, and then endeavour to? 



enumerate their various and probable caufes. 



TIES Of 



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We chiefly obferved two great varieties of people in the South- 

 Seas ; the one more fair, well limbed, athletic, of a fine fize 

 and a kind benevolent temper; the other, blacker, the hair juft 

 beginning to become woolly and crifp,. the body more {lender and 

 low, and their temper, if poffible more brills, though fomewhat 

 miflruftful. The firft race inhabits O-Taheitee, and the Society 

 Ifles, the Marquefas, the Friendly Ifles, E after- liland, and New- 

 Zeeland. The fecond race peoples New-Caledonia,. Tanna, and 

 the New Hebrides, efpecially Mallicollo. The Pelherais, are not 

 I think, to be ranked among the natives of the South Sea, as it is 



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be doubted, that they originally 



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from the American continent. Each of the above two races of men, 

 is again divided into feveral varieties, which form the gradations 



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towards the other race ; fo that we find fome of the firfi: race almofl as 

 black and llender as fome of the fecond ; and in this fecond race are 

 fome ftrong, athletic figures, which may almofl vie with the firft^ 

 however, as we have many good reafons for comprehending in one 

 tribe all the illanders enumerated under the firft race -, we could 



not help giving to all a general character, from which, on account 



of the extent and compafs, wherein thefe nations are difperfed 

 the outfkjrts or extremes mufl deviate. 



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