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r. Firjl, O-Taheitee, and the adjacent Society-Ifles, no 

 doubt contain the moil beautiful variety of the firfl race : but even 

 here nature feems to follow that richnefs, luxuriance,, and variety,. 



hich we have obferved in its veg 



fined 



fino-fe type or model. The. common people are m.oft expofed to air 

 and. fun ; they do all kinds of dirty work ; they exert their flrength 

 in agriculture, fifhing, paddling, building of houfes and canoes 

 and laftly, they are flinted in their food. From thefe caufes, they 

 degenerate as it were towards the fecond race, but always preferve 

 forne remains of their original type ;■ which, in their chiefs or i\rees, 



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and the better fort of people, appears in its full luflre and perfcc- 



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The colour of their il 



lefs tawny than 



of a Sp 



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and not fo cop-^-cry as that of an American j it Is of a lighter 



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he iaij-^il compiexljn of an inhabitant of the.Eaft-Indian 



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iilands ; In a woii, it i: of a white, tindured with abrownifh yel- 



of the 



lov/, hrrrcver not fo flrongly mixed, but that on the 



faireib of iL.' . v. cmen, you may eafily diilinguifli a fpreading blufn,. 



From this complexion we find all the intermediate hues dov/n to a 





lively brown, bordering upon the fwarthy complexion of the fecond. 



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race. Their hair is commonly black, ftrong, naturally falling in: 

 the moil beautiful ringlets, and fhining w^ith the perfumed coco- 

 nut-oil. I fav/ but few v/ith yellowilh-brown or fandy hair, and 

 often no more than the extremities were yellowhh, and the roots 



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