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fjevery refpe(5l, this evidently xontributes much to keep thcni in 

 ;health, and in the enjoymeat of real happinefs. 



We found.in the illcs but few people who -w^ere disfigured or 

 maimed, or had any bodily imperfe<5lions: -however they were by 

 no means entirely free from them. For l:faw fome that f(][uinted. 



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others that had a film 



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and feveral blind of 



eye 



In the ifle of Tanna I obfer-ved many who had a <kind of weaknefs 

 in the eyelids, fo 4:hat they qould not lift them up beyond a 



limited ^extent, 'h,ut were. obliged to rajfe the head in order to fee 

 things ^that were upon a level 



their 



eye 



J have reafon to 



believe that it is not merely an accidental ailment; for I fawa man 



and his little fon of about £ 



fix 



years 



both labouring 



-under the .fame irnperfedion, fo that it might perhaps be owing 

 :to the manner of Jiving in that family, or be cauied by the infa- 

 Jubrious |pot their hut flood on, or perhaps itis peculiar to this, 



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and fome other families, and is propagated. * I obferved a few 

 diump-backed, and alfo here and there a orooked perfon, fome had 



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diflorted 



""* There are inftaiiccs th^t dumbnefs and deafnefs hara'been propagated from .parents upon 

 children; likewife blindnefs has been entailed upon children ; and people who have either 

 four or fix fingers on their hands, have procreated children with the fame imperfeiflion : 

 in the fame manner it is.poffible, that this defed might be propagated ; though I am rather 

 induced to fuppofe that this.paralyfis of the eye-lids was caufed by the marfhy fituation of 

 the huts in which the families lived, and from the conllant fmottV with which their huts ar 





filled 



