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pride themfelves upon fuch excellence as does not 
diminifli their ftrength and activity. 
The Turks, Perfians, Moguls, Chinefe, and other 
eaftern nations, would not have fuch ftrong claims 
to beauty and fymmetry, were it not for a well- 
known circumftance, that, fliaring our conceptions 
of what is moft pleafing to the eye, the higher order 
among them betrays a concern for embeMifliing the 
human race, by conftant marriages or connexions 
with the fineft females, dearly-bought Greeks, Geor- 
gians, Circaffians, &c. &c. Thus the mafs of po« 
pulation has been purified by partial emigrations, 
extended commerce, and confequent intercourfe be- 
tween the various claffes of mankind. 
ESSAY 
