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CAUSES evident diiFerence in their charadter, colour, fize, form, and habk 



OF VARI- 

 ETIES. 



of body. 



If we apply this indu6tion to the two different tribes, whom we 

 found in the South-Sea, it will appear to be highly probable, that 

 they may be defcended from two different races of men ; and though 

 living in the fame climate, or nearly fo, might, however, preferve 

 a difference in charader, colour, iize, form and habit of body ; and 

 if I could now prove, by an hiftorical argument, that they really 



are defcended from two different races of 



men, nothing will 



be 



wanting to convidion. How far I fliall fucceed in this hiflorical 

 argument, will be eafily feen from the following obfervation. 



It has always been cuflomary among the more critical and chafle 

 hiflorians, to reckon all fuch nations as fpeak x\\^ fajm general Ian- 

 giiage, to be of the fame tribe or race;, unlefs there be 



a pofitlve 



proof to the contrary, in a good^ authentic, cotemporary writer ; 



enquiries on the fubjecft from old materials, 



or one who has made 



now no longer exifling. 



By the 



SAME GENERAL LANGUAGE, 



I underftand 



the 



various fubordinate dialedis of 



g 



No one for inflance, acquainted with the fubjed:„ will deny, that 

 the Dutch, Low-German, Danifh, Swedifh, Norwegian, Ice- 

 landic, and the Englifh (in refpedt to fuch words as owe their ori- 



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gin to the Anglo-Saxon) are dialeds fubordinate to the fame orlgl- 

 iial language, together with the prefent High-German, and the re- 



mains 



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