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The younger have all the cherub face and form 

 of the lovely fmiling babes of a temperate 

 climate. Thofe more advanced are thinner, and 

 bear about them more of that languor, which 

 univerfally refults from long refidence in great 

 and conftant heat ; but ft ill have they no kind 

 of approach to the thickened lip — the large 

 mouth— the proje&ing countenance — the flat- 

 tened nofe — 'the lengthened head — the woolly 

 hair— -or the dark fkin of the negroes. 



The opinions of the gentlemen of the 

 ifland feem to be all againft the idea of fuch a 

 converfion of the human body, and we are 

 allured that multitudes of families, in addition 

 to thofe we have feen, now live in Barbadoes, 

 who in progreilive defcent, through fuccef- 

 five generation^, for nearly two hundred 

 years, have refidW in the ifland, without the 

 flighteft change being perceptible in their off- 

 fpring of the prefent day. 



To whatever age the parents may have 

 lived, it is remarkable that, although the face 

 and bands £hall have become brown, from im- 

 mediate expofure to the fun^the other parts of 

 their bodies remain white and unchanged \ and 

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