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ETHNOLOGY 



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Br the late J. C. PRICHAEDj Esq., M.D. 



There are few subjects that can engage the attention of 



intelligent travellers, more worthy of interest, or on which 



any additions to our previous stock of information will be 



more generally appreciated, than ethnology. Under that 

 term is comprised all that relates to hunian behigs, 



whether regarded as individuals or as members of families 



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or communities. The former head includeis the physical 

 history of man ; that is, an account of the peculiarities of 

 his bodily form and constitution^ as they arc displayed 

 in difierent tribes, and under different circumstance? of 

 climate, local situation. 



clothing, nutrition, and 



under 





he various conditions which are supposed to 



occasion 



diversities of organic development. The same expression 

 may also, in a wide sense, comprehend all observations 

 tending to illustrate psychology, or the history of the 

 intellectual and moral faculties, the sentiments, feelings. 

 acquired habits, and natural propensities. To the second 

 division of tulo general subject, viz., to the history of man 

 as a social being, must be referred all observations as to 

 the progress of men in arts and civilization in different 



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