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the Africans. Yet is there not an individual 

 among them, who, either in form, feature, or 

 colour has made even the flighteft approach 

 to that change, which a conftant refidence, 

 through fo many generations, muft have ef- 

 fected, were their defendants, of future ages, 

 to become of negro form, and hue. 



Allowing this change of our fpecies to 

 be as flow and gradual as the warmed advo- 

 cate of the do&rine might fuppofe, it were 

 impoffible for the mind to conceive a period, 

 when the offspring of Europeans would be 

 broiled into perfecT: negroes, if no fort of 

 commencement — no mark whatever of devia- 

 tion—nor any approach to the converfion, 

 could be traced, either in the features, or the 

 fkin, of thofe of the fifth, or fixth, or per- 

 haps of the eighth or ninth generation ; after 

 a refidence, too, in the fucceflive races, of 

 nearly two hundred years under a tropical 

 fun, and being expofed to moft of the other 

 caufes, faid to promote the expected revolu- 

 tion of their frames ! 



Children born in England have not fairer 

 fkins, nor features more correctly European. 



