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inhabitants of that place are of a very high ilature, which is more 

 eipecially ftriking in the numerous gigantic figures of v/omen. 



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IS certainly is ov/ing to the connexions and intermarriages of 



the tall men with the females of that town. * 



Having therefore 



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probability and reality of fuch a tall race of men 



in Patagonia, from the befl: authenticated teflimonies of refpedable 

 writers, and from arguments founded in nature ; I fliall take leave 

 of this fubjed: with the obvious remark, that it is as unjuft as it 



illiberal to rail at thofe who are ftill of 



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people are found on the extremity of South America. 



To the South of the ftraits of Mao-alhaens, on Tierra del Fueo-o. 

 are a tribe of people apparently much debafed, or degenerated 

 from -thofe nations which live on the continent. Their broad 



ilioulders and chefls, large heads, and the general call: of their 

 features, would prove them to be defcended from the men living 

 next to them, though that faithful and intelligent writer, Mr. 



that they belonged to the Tacajia-' 

 time I fliall likewife obferve, that 



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■^ Though I have been myfelf at Potzdam, it is however fo long ago, and at fo early a 

 period of life, when people arc not mindful enough, or capable of making obfervationSj 

 that I never took notice of it ; but I owe this information to a gentleman whofc fpirit of 

 obfervation, and literary talents make his authority indlfputable, 



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