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flout, mufcular, well made, elegant figures. They are exempt, 
indeed, from many of thofe caufes that, in more civilized focie- 
ties, contribute to impede the growth of the body. Their diet 
is fimple ; their exercife of a falutary nature; their body is nei- 
ther cramped nor encumbered by clothing ; the air they breathe 
is pure ; their reft is not difturbed by violent love, nor their 
minds ruffled by jealoufy ; they are free from thofe licentious 
appetites which proceed frequently more from a depraved ima- 
gination than a real natural want: their frame is neither ftiaken 
nor enervated by the ufe of intoxicating liquors, which they 
are not acquainted with ; they eat when hungry, and fleep 
when nature demands it. "With fuch a kind of life, languor 
and melancholy have little to do. The countenance of a KafFer 
is always cheerful ; and the whole of his demeanor befpeaks 
content and peace of mind. 
Though black, or very nearly fo, they have not one line of 
the African negro in the compofition of their perfons. The 
comparative anatomift might be a little perplexed in placing the 
(kuU of a Kaffer in the chain, fo ingenioufly put together by 
him, comprehending all the links from the moft perfedt Euro- 
pean to the Ourang-Outang, and thence through all the 
monkey-tribe. The head of a Kaffer is not elongated : the 
frontal and the occiputal bones form nearly a fefnicircle ; and a 
line from the forehead to the chin drawn over the nofe is con- 
vex like that of moft Europeans. In fliort, had not Nature 
beftowed upon him the dark-coloring principle that anatomifts 
have difcovered to be owing to a certain gelatinous fluid lying 
between 
