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of those races has preserved, in the New as in 

 the Old World, the shades that constitute it's 

 national physiognomy ; it's harshness or mild- 

 ness of character ; it's moderation, or it's ex- 

 cessive desire of gain ; it's kind hospitality, or 

 it's taste for solitude. In the countries where 

 the population is for the most part composed of 

 Indians and mingled casts, the difference, that 

 manifests itself between the Europeans and 

 their descendants, cannot indeed be so strongly 

 marked, as that which was observed anciently 

 in the colonies of Ionian and Doric origin. The 

 Spaniards transplanted to the torrid zone hav- 

 ing become under new skies strangers to the 

 remembrances of their mother country, must 

 have felt more sensible changes than the Greeks 

 settled on the coasts of Asia Minor, and of 

 Italy, the climates of which differ so little from 

 those of Athens and Corinth. It cannot be 

 denied, that the character of the Spanish Ame- 

 ricans have received different modifications from 

 the physical constitution of the country ; the 

 isolated site of the capitals on the table-lands, 

 or in the vicinity of the coasts ; the agricultural 

 life ; the labour of the mines, and the habit of 

 commercial speculations : but in the inhabit- 

 ants of Caraccas, Santa Fe, Quito, and Bu- 

 enos Ayres, we recognize every where some- 

 thing that belongs to the race, and the situation 

 of the people. 



