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dF war canoes, which we faw reviewed 



and 



firmed 



fion 



a view of the fi 



d extent of the fe 



con- MANNERS 



COMPARE© 



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furrounding the ifle. 



calculating the number of bread-fru 



trees growing on this plain, and the quantity of breadfruit- trees 



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liecefTary for the fupport of one man, fhewing-that many more 



men might receive fubfifbence than we had allowed. 



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wherewith to compare or to meafurc 



; and laftly we fuppofed more 



iiles 



ilandard afforded us a rule 

 the population of all othe 



ihan one million of inhabitants to live ©n the ifles which 



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rieen and vifited. We obferved, that the inhabitants of the iflands 



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in the South Seas are remarkably different in colour, form, habit^ 



we 



had 



and natural turn of mind 



and that the people at Taheitee and 



the Society-ifles, with thofe at the Marquefas, the Friendly-ifles, 

 New-Zeeland and Eafler-iiland feem to conllitute a race of 



men 



entirely different from thofe at New-Caledonia, Tanna and 

 MalUcoUo, and all the reft living in the New Hebrides. 



Wc 



added a fmall account of 



Pefferais, prefixing to it a dill 



proving the exiftence of a nation taller and more, athletic than the 

 reft oi the American tribes -, though not fo tall as the fabulous 



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accounts of a gigantic race would make them. The caufes of the 



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difference obferved m the races of men are the fubjed of another 



fedion. 



Some fuppofe men to be divided into fpecies materially 



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and effentially different from one another. Others on the contrary 



are 



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