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ficient td prove the contrary, fince the difference 

 that is found between the People of America and 

 Africa, proceeds from no other caufe but the diffe* 

 rent qualities of the Air and Climat in thefe two 

 Continents : That this appears plainly to be true, 

 becaufe a Negro Man and Woman, or a Savage Man 

 and Woman, being tranfplanted into Europe, will 

 produce fuch Children there, who in four or five 

 Generations, will infallibly be as white, as the moft 

 ancient Europeans. The Phyfician deny'd this mat- 

 ter of Fad, and maintained, that the Children des- 

 cended from this Negro Man or Woman, would be 

 born there as black as they are in Guinea ; but that 

 afterwards the Rays of the Sun being more oblique 

 and lefs fcorching than in Africa, thefe Infants 

 would not have that black fliining Luftre, which is 

 fo eafily diftinguifhed upon the Skin of fuch Negroes 

 as are brought up in their own Country. To con- 

 firm his Hyfothefis, he affur'd me, that he had feen 

 many Negroes at Lisbon, as black as in Africa, tho' 

 their Great Grandfather's Grandfather had been tranf- 

 planted into Portugal many years agoe. He added 

 alfo, that thofe who were defcended from the Portu- 

 guese, that dwelt at Angola, Cape Vert, &c. about a 

 hundred years agoe, are fo little tawn'd, that 'tis 

 impoffible todiftinguifli them from the Natives of 

 Portugal : He further confirmed his way of reafon- 

 ing, from an unconteftable matter of fad, for, fays 

 he, if the Rays of the Sun were the caufe of the 

 blacknefs of the Negroes, from hence it would fol- 

 low, that the Brazilians being fituate in the fame 

 degree from the Equator with the Africans, fhould 

 be as black as they are ; but fo they are not, for 

 'tis certain their Skin appears to be as clear as that of 

 the Portuguefe. But this was not all, he maintained 

 farther, that thefe who are defcended from the firft 

 Savages of Brazil, that were tranfported into . Portu- 

 gal, above an Age agoe, have as little Hair and 



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