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GEOGRAPHY. 



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question, as regards the population of a country, is the 

 nature- and character of the races by which it is inhibited • 



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they 

 reat races of the human family, or to a mixture of 

 several ; how far the Fiatioijal character has been affected 

 or modified hy such mixture ; whether it took place hiw 



ago, or 



is an event of recent occurrence- I 



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stances, casual intercourse with tlie natives will lead to 



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to have been preserved, which, after making due allow- 

 ance for exaggeration and prejudice, will generally give a 

 clue to the details required. It is also worth noticing, 

 when the population consists of various races, whether one 

 race or nation is more confined to a rural or a town life 

 than the other ; whether there exists any feeling of hos- 

 tility or jealousy between them ; whether any particular 

 trades or occupations are more exclusively practised or 

 followed by one race than the other ; whether one race is 

 kept down or oppressed by the other, or whether they cn- 

 jo\ a state of comparative equality. 



When the population of a country has up to a certain 

 period consisted of one race, and a mixture has subse- 

 quently taken place, this change may have been occasioned 

 in three different ways. The new race may have come 



down with force and violence on the original inhabitants 



and 



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aving gained possession by right of conquest, may 

 lave constituted themselves the m.asters of fhe country ; 

 , secondly, they may have been introduced as slaves in 



the first instance, captured in war or taken by stratagem 

 by their more successful neighbours ; or, thirdly, they may 

 have come gradually, few at a time, witli the free consent 



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