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the natives of America. If we divide them 

 into Eskimoes and non Eskimoes, we readily 

 admit, that this classification is not more phi- 

 losophical than that of the ancients, who saw 

 in the whole habitable world only Celts and 

 Scythians, Greeks and Barbarians. When the 

 question however is to group nations without 

 number, we gain something by proceeding in 

 the mode of exclusion. All we have sought to 

 establish here is, that, in separating the whole 

 race of Tschougaz-Eskimoes, there remain still, 

 among the coppery-brown Americans, other 

 races, the children of which are born white, 

 without our being able to prove, by going back 

 as far as the history of the Conquest, that they 

 have been mingled with European blood. This 

 fact deserves to be cleared up by travellers, 

 who, endowed with the knowledge of physio- 

 logy, shall have opportunities of examining 

 the brown children of the Mexicans at the age 

 of two years, the white children of the Mia- 

 mis, and those hordes * on the Oroonoko, who, 

 living in the most sultry regions, retain during 

 their whole life, and in the fullness of their 

 strength, the whitish skin of the Mestizoes. 

 The little communication that has hitherto 

 existed between North America and the Spa- 



* These whitish tribes are the Guaycas, the Ojos, and 

 the Maquiritares. 



