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lavater’s 
The favages of Hudfon’s Bay, and on the coaft of 
Labrador, have their faces and bodies almott en- 
tirely covered with hair; the countenance flat and 
wide, large eyes and flat nofes. 
Superior to all thefe, the inhabitants of New 
Holland improve their frightful uglinefs, by drawing 
the two upper fore teeth. They have eye-lids half' 
fhut in, from the cuftom of ufing fuch a defence 
againft the malignant bite of gnats. 
Thick lips, broad and flat nofes, bulhy hair, black 
teeth, with diftorted countenances, are the features 
which characterize the Papous and inhabitants of 
New Gumea. In our eftimation, the fair fex there 
hardly deferves this appellation ; with coarfe looks 
large bellies, flight limbs, and monftrous breafts. 
Whim, not reafon, feems to direCt their motions and 
courfe of life. Like brutes, they are lazy, cruel, igno- 
rant, and untraCtable ; having no juft notions of right 
and wrong, perfection and deformity. The fame 
diforder that diftinguifties their perfons, is a leading 
feature of their moral character. In fhort, they are 
arrant thieves, who fet no bounds to the indulgence 
of their moft vicious appetites. 
Among the dwarfs and nobility of Calicut, there 
is a fpecies of men whofe legs are as large as bodies 
of the common fize ; but fome of them have only 
one over-grown limb. Thefe thick-legged beings 
are common in the ifland of Ceylon, where they 
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