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lavater’s 
Section III. 
On the Difference of Complexion. 
The colour of different people varies from white 
to black. Between thefe two oppofite colours 
there are many fliades, containing a mixture of li- 
vid, or blueifh, red, and yellow. Thefe varieties 
are reduced to four principal tindlures, white, yel- 
lowifh, tawny, and black. 
White People. 
The Swedes, Danes, and other northern FalTo- 
peans, are white, except the Laplanders, the Sa- 
moyedes, and the inhabitants of Petzora, a pro- 
vince divided by a river of the fame name running 
from fouth to north. 
This complexion diftinguiflies the Englijh, 
French, Germans, Poles, and others living down 
to the 42d degree of northern latitude. According 
as we advance in fouthern climates, the tawny teint 
gradually increafes. 
The Greeks, Neapolitans, Corjicans, Sardinians, 
and Spaniards, or thofe who inhabit the fouth of 
Spain, are confequently more tawny than their 
neighbours. 
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