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<>i' rlu" aborigines, pnn'ioiisly j^een in the Batliurst 

 distrirt, o([ii;illy upply tn tliosc now sciMi in 

 tills portiou of tiie colony. 1 cannot consider 

 tkem m degraded a race as tliey liave beea re- 

 tmmi alludiiig to the Att$trelia& 

 li^ro^ aays, ** To judge by liis external a]>- 

 pearaiiee mid intellect, tlie native of New South 

 Wales would seem to have l)een degraded frout 

 the true rank of man, and to approacli tlio na- 



** This race doten not appear to differ in any 



tiling essential from the Oceanic race, of wliich 

 tlie PajMias alone forrii another somewhat dis- 

 tinct branch ; they have a similarity of form 



and ^mm^ t0 MmUM$ of 



Biitam, New Imtaad, and resy pidbitbfy 



those of New Caledonia. Poverty of soil and 

 rigour of climate must have exerted au influence 

 upon tlie race, and deteriorated it, and it is 



thk s<mr(^ 1%^^ dtf^Q6l3Ei^«tiae, 

 wliich seem to $ejf>aeate it torn the ilndan tu^io 

 race, with which, lio\ve%'er, an att(;ntive (jxami- 

 nation shows it to be identical.'' And he fur- 

 ther observeSj it is probable that the negroes 

 of New Boltoipd have extended into the Austra- 

 li^oii iBi3i3Stmem« 1^ NW Gttiiia^ lOnd the 

 ishinds, and tliat the nugratioji has been made 

 from the coast of Africa by the great island of 



