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REMARKS 



O N 



THE 



CAUSES 



OF VARI- 

 ETIES. 



The Slavonian nations or Sauromatse, are later defcended from the 

 Medes, * a nation formerly living in modern Perfia; they were 



S 



long fettled to the North of the Caucafus and Black 



w 



try vrhich is very hot in funimer ; and in the fifth century they 



were 



the Danube, from v^hence they gradually fpread 



the 



which they now occupy : this account 



nally 



re 



folves the flrange phsenomenon, viz. that they flill keep the na- 



tional charader, of a Southern tribe. They migrated from the South 

 in a later period than the Goths, and other Teutonic tribes ^ 

 and have had more opportunities of mixing with Afiatic tribes of 



brown compl 



than the Northern Danes and Goth 



Th 



IS 



inllance, I believe, confirms the above , afi^ertion j and it likewife 

 appears from thence, that the fairer nations being expofed to a more 

 powerful fun in hot climates, foon acquire a browner complexion. 

 However, when they have once attained to a certain ftandard cha- 

 racter, they preferve it with very immaterial alterations y but I fup- 



I 



pofe that they make no confiderable change in their food, in their 

 mode of dreiling^ and Jiving, and that they do not promifcuouily 



n - 



intermarry with negroes, mulattos, or other aboriginal or mixed 

 tribes of hot climates, in which cafes, there are juil reafons to fuf- 

 ped: that their charader and complexion mufi: gradually degenerate 



and 



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* DIod. Skul. lib. 2 do. & Plin. Hift. Nat. lib. vi. c. 7, 



