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GEOGRAPHICAL REMARKS. 
Besides the preceding geographical and political divisions, a very re- 
markable distinction may be made in the extratropical part of Southern 
Africa, with respect to its aboriginal inhabitants. It is peopled by nations 
evidently of two widely distinct origins. The Hottentot Race is separated 
from all the nations of the globe, by their extraordinary language, instantly 
known from every other, by the frequent and peculiar clapping noise in its 
pronunciation. From all their neighbours they are distinguished by a less 
swarthy skin, a very different cast of features, a smaller stature, and more 
delicate limbs and figure. The Cqffre Race, whose language is free from 
the clapping of the tongue, are characterised by a taller figure, and limbs 
more robust, by a darker color, and features more round and large ; and 
who, although approaching more to the Negro, are as distinct from these, 
as from the Hottentots. To the Hottentot Race are referable the tribes de- 
nominated Bushmen, the Namaquas, and Koras or Koraquas, as well as the 
Hottentots proper who at this day, as before the discovery of the land by 
Europeans, mhabit the Cape Colony. That part of Africa which they 
occupy, may therefore, in its most extended sense, be denominated the 
Country of the Hottentots, or Hottentotaria if so long a name were admissible, 
or the abridged one of Hottentaria not be more convenient. To the Caffre 
Race belong the Bichuanas, and the Dammaras, together with the Kosas or 
Caffres Proper, the Tambookis, and probably all the tribes on the eastern 
side of the Continent, as far as Delagoa Bay. 
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