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have forms rather delicate than muscuhir ; their joints and limhs are very 

 small ; countenance ugly, but diifering, in this respect, in different families. 

 Some individuals possess very flat noses, others have them quite prominent ; 

 their eyes are dark chestnut brown, long with narrow openings, widely sepa- 

 rated, with the inner angles rounded as in the Chinese, to whom, generally, 

 the Hottentots have much resemblance. The cheek bones are high and prom- 

 inent, and with the small pointed chin, form almost a triangle ; the teeth are 

 white. The young women are well and pleasingly formed ; the breasts are 

 unusually large, and the bosom very full ; but soon after the birth of the first 

 child, it becomes flabby, and in old age very pendulous. The abdomen swells 

 out, and the hinder part is covered with a thick mass of pure fat. Burchell 

 describes them in a similar manner. "The hands and feet," says he, " are 

 small ; the eyes so oblique that transverse lines drawn through the angles do 

 not converge upon the same plane, but sometimes intersect half way up the 

 nose ; the face between the two cheek bones is flat ; the ridge of the nose is 

 scarcely perceptible, but the end is broad and flattened ; the nostrils diverge ; 

 the chin is long and projects in front : the small size of the lower face is also 

 a characteristic of the race." The hair grows in small crisp knots, tufts, or 

 long rope-like locks, which stand apart from each other at certain distances, 

 and cannot be penetrated by a comb. The complexion is of a yellow leather 

 color, or pale yellowish brown. Sparrman compares the hue to that caused by 

 the jaundice. 



The People of Europe. 



In Europe there are twenty different stocks of people, all of whom, how- 

 ever, except the Lapps, Finns, and Calmucs, who appertain to the Mongolian 

 race, belong to one race, the Caucasian. Three of these stocks are distin- 

 guished as well for their intellectual cultivation as for their numbers and 

 power. The first is the Graeco-Latinic, to which belong the Arnauts, 

 Albanians, Wallachians, Greeks, Italians, French, Spaniards, and Portu- 

 guese ; who speak languages derived from the Greek and Latin ; exhibit 

 graceful, unconstrained movements ; have black eyes, black hair, brown 

 complexion, and sharp, distinctly marked features ; are lively, ardent, courte- 

 ous, but generally fickle and frivolous, easily influenced by the passions, 

 and indefatigable in their efforts towards the gratification of their wishes 

 and desires. They are, nevertheless, temperate in eating and drinking. 

 Peculiar circumstances have, moreover, here and there called forth a de- 

 viation from these traits ; thus, for example, the inhabitants of Andalusia 

 and Algarves have an African tincture, through their contact with Arabs 

 and Moors : the fiery Spirit of the Belgians and Northern French has 

 become somewhat tempered by the admixture of Celts and Germans ; and 

 the Greeks, through their contact with Slavonia, approach somewhat to the 

 disposition of the Slavonic stock. These Grseco-Latinic people, moreover, 

 inhabit the southern islands and peninsulas of Europe, France, and Belgium 

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