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longer without alteration than any other people causes 



coming from colder climates, and goings to 



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but fuch incidents muft always be compared under fimilar circum- 

 fiances : for if two Europeans, equally fair, are removed to the 



fame hot climate, and the 



well drelTed, and avoids, as much 



as poffible, being expofed to the adion of the air, and power of the 

 fun ; whilfl the other finds himfelf obliged to work in the open 



and has hardly any rags 



his fkin ; they will, of 



moreover, if 



ral confequence, become widely different in colour j 

 this diverfity in the mode of living be kept up for feveral genera- 

 tions, the charader of botli muft of courfe become more flrikingly 



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different. If we look upon the inhabitants of Denmark, we find 



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them remarkably fair, and with blue eyes, and red hair. The Bo- 

 hemians, Poles, Ruffians, and in general all the Slavonian nations, 

 have a brownifli complexion, dark eyes, and black or brown hair, 

 though fome of the latter undoubtedly live in higher latitudes than 

 the former. The reafon here certainly is not the climate, but tlic 



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caufe is to be found in their migrations ; the Gothic nations are no 



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doubt the mofl early inhabitants of the North, and therefore have 

 had more time to become gradually fairer, than the greater part of 

 their neighbouring European tribes ; and they like wife have 



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had 

 pportunities of marrying or becoming connected with fuch 



Southern nations, as had a brow 



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