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K E M A R K S ON the 



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ARTE- tliat of any nation, that ever came uniinproved out of the hands of 



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TIES OF 



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-Secondly. The variety of men, next in beauty to thofe of the 

 Society-Ifles, are the inhabitants of the Marquesas. They are 

 in general more tawny than the former being fituated in the latitude 

 of 9° ^'j' South, nearer the line than the Society-Hies ; and they 

 -are alfo more accuftomed to go without any covering ; their privi- 



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ties excepted : both which reafons are fufficient to account for the 



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darker hue of their iliin. However, there are fome few more fair 



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among them -, and their women, who generally go covered, are al- 

 moil as fair as thofe in the Society-Ifles, Their men are generally 

 ftout-limbed, but none are fo flelhy as thofe in the laft-mentioned 

 illes, owing, as I fuppofe, to their greater adivity ; .for, as a very 

 confiderable part of them live on the ilopes and the very fummits of 

 high hills, where their habitations have much the appearance of the 

 ayries of eagles, on the craggy fummits of inacceffible rocks, they 

 muft of courfe have a flender habit of body, ffom the frequent 

 .climbing of thefe high mountains, and from the keen air, which 



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they breathe in regions almoft conflantly involved in clouds. They 



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have black beards and fine hair on their heads. Their females and 



have beautiful, regular 



features, and oval faces ; 



younger people 



;but the grown men lofe their fprightlinefs, by the general cuflom 

 <ef punduring clofely, all their body and faces, m the mofl flrange, 



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