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that of the Hottentots, and has the colour of 
dried lemon peel : it is very difagreeable to 
the light. Their hair is black, much longer, 
and lefs frizzled. Intercourfe with women 
of this new breed, as may naturally be fup- 
pofed, produces a fpecies ftill whiter, whofe 
hair is alfo much lefs frizzled j and though, 
by thus proceeding gradually, there is at 
length no fenlible difference between them 
and the Europeans In their hair and the white- 
nefs of their Ikin, the prominence of the 
cheek bones is ftill remarkable. This is one 
indelible charaderiftic, which may be ob- 
ferved even after the fourth generation. 
The union of the Hottentot women with 
the negroes, gives birth to a race ftill fupe- 
rlor to thofe of whom I have fpoken. They 
are much taller and better made, and their 
figure is more agreeable and engaging. Their 
colour, which holds a mean between the 
black of the father and the olive tint of the 
mother, is much lefs offenfive to the fight ; 
their moral and phyfical qualities are alfo 
very different. They are much fought after^ 
on account of their being capable of great 
labour ; but what above all renders them of 
(he blgheft value is, that to much aftivity, 
withour 
