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perhaps to any other, yet he still trembles to put foot on 

 ocean. 



Notwithstanding that change of place, simply, may 

 have impression to improve the species, yet is it more to 

 circumstances connected with this change, to which the 

 chief part of the improvement must be referred. In the 

 agitation which accompanies emigration, the ablest in 

 mind and body— the most powerful varieties of the race 

 will be thrown into their natural position as leaders, im- 

 pressing the stamp of their character on the people at 

 large, and constituting the more reproductive part ; while 

 the feebler or more impro^ddent varieties will generally 

 sink under the incidental hardships. Wlien a swarm 

 emigrates from a prosperous hive, it also will generally 

 consist of the more adventurous stirring spirits, who, 

 with the right of conquerors, will appropriate the finest 

 of the indigenae which they overrun ; their choice of these 

 being regulated by personal qualities, not by the adven- 

 titious circumstances of wealth or high birth — a regard to 

 which certainly tends to deteriorate the species, and is 

 one of the causes which renders the noblesse of Europe 

 comparatively inferior to the Asiatic, or rather the Chris- 

 tian noblesse to the Mahometan. 



It has been remarked, that our finest, most acute po- 

 pulation, exist in the neutral ground, where the Cauca- 

 sian and Keltic have mixed, but this may arise from other 

 causes than admixture. Our healthiest and poorest coun- 

 try borders the Highlands, and the population enjoy more 

 of the open au*. Our eastern population, north of the 



