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defcendedj was modelled by chance or art into that form, and 

 afterwards became inherent and natural to their offspring, it [5 

 impoiTible to determine. The inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego^ 

 re all a chubbed race, probably became they are defcended from a 

 fet of people of large limbs, living on the continent, but beino- 

 flinted by cold, and wants of all kinds, are degenerated into a ihort, 

 and fquat figure, which keeps always 



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the original model. 



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type 



in the fize of the head; a circumftance almofl: generally 

 obferved in dwarfs,. 



The feet are generally thin, and by no means proportioned ta 

 the reft of the body, in the New-Zeelanders, and the people of 

 Tierra del Fuego, and they likewife have large knees. This may 

 be eafily accounted for from their general practice of fifliing, Wm^i. 

 confines them for days together to their canoes, without allowing 

 them the ufual exercife j and from their conilant fitting upon their 



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hams, which ftretches and expands the knees, and prevents the legs 

 from being furniflied with the fupplies necefiTary for the increafe of 

 thofe parts. The people ia the ifles w^alk much, but likewife fit 

 on their hams, and we find their knees alfo, and their whole legs 

 enlarged, from the great exertion of thofe parts, which are not 

 comp refined and refiirained as ours, by jfhoes and other articles of drefs. 

 The faces are in general ftrongly marked with laro;e features. 



and fomewhat broad, but prominent nofes 



all 



flanders of 



the 



