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o-lveamore foft, fpungy and fiicculent habit of body; which is 

 eaiily obfervable in the people of Tierra del Fuego, who are a 

 thick, fquat, bony race of men. 



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iikewife in a milder climate, flefliy, honey, and fucculent, and 



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the Arees and better fort of people, in the Society and Friendly 

 Ifles, who carefully iludy, and endeavour to keep themfelves cool, 

 ^nd avoid as much as poffible, an expofure to the heat of the fun, 

 are fucculent, flefhy, and fat. 



Fourthlyy T\\t peculiar defecis, or excejjes, or modifications of certain 

 ■parts of the human body have endemial caufes, dependent upon pecu- 

 liar cuftoms, which fom^etimes are obvious, but at other times not 

 eafily inveiligated, efpecially v/hen the obferver has not more time 

 to ftudy them, than we had. However, we will point them out, 

 and leave it to others to make further difcoveries. 



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In Mallicollo, we dbferved that the greater part of the iliulls of 

 the inhabitants, had a very fmgular conformation 3 for the fore- 

 head from the beginning of the nofe, together with the reil of 

 the head, was much depreffed and inclining backward : which 



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caufes an appearance in the looks and countenances of the natives, 

 fniiilar to thofe of monkies. Whether the inhabitants ufe fome 

 art to r>-ive the heads of their children this figure, or whether it 



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be owing to fome other caufe, or to an original defedl of the whole 

 generation, which in the firft couple from v/hom this tribe 



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