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jlavater’s 
ESSAY JX. 
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On the Varieties of the Human Species. ' 
THERE are not two kinds, but feveral diftiniT 
families of mankind. Kant reckons four human 
races; the Northern European, the American, the 
Negro, and the Tawny Indian who inhabits the 
banks of the Ganges. 
Erxleben admits fix different fpecies of men ; — 
the Northern Dwarfs, or Laplanders ; the Afiatic 
Tartars, living from Mount Imaus to the borders of 
Lapland ; other inhabitants of Afia, beyond the 
G anges ; Europeans, Africans, and Mexicans. 
The Northern Dwarf, or Laplander, is of a di- 
minutive ftature, and his leading features corre- 
fpond with his brutal ftate and habits of life. 
His vifage is flat, broad above, contra6fed, and 
lengthened in the lower part, with a flat nofe 
prefled down ; fmall eyes, with a femicircle of 
yellow brown and blackifli colour about the fight. 
His eye-lids are lengthened toward the temples, 
the cheeks exceflively high, the mouth very large, 
thick lips, a fhrill fqueaking voice, a monftrous 
head, fleek and black hair, tawny complexion, his 
body thick, lliort, and fquat, for he is feldom above 
four feet high. 
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