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L AVATEr’s 
As the two extremes touch, we need not be fur- 
prized to hear of exceptions from the general rule 
formed by the degree of latitude. 
We call olive and dark, thofe teints of a fwarthy 
complexion, of which the firft borders on livid 
deep green, and the fecond is blackifli like fmoke. 
It is, however, difficult to find language to ex- 
prefs properly thofe various nice diftin£fions, 
which even art can retrace but imperfeefly to dif- 
cerning eyes. 
If we begin at the frozen points of Europe^ the 
Greenlanders will be found fwarthy, or dark. 
Like them are their American neighbours, the 
FJldmaiix, and other favages, from Canada to the 
MilfilJippi ; and even the Mexicans, wkh flight 
fhades of difference. 
In the Well-Indies the olive complexion marks the 
few furviving original inhabitants, the Caribbees, who 
rcfemble thofe of Paragmnj, and others along the 
great Southern Ocean, up the flraits of Magellan. 
But Captain Cook deferibes the people of the 
Terra del Fogo with facies like the ruft of iron mix- 
ed with oil. 
The Laplanders, the Samnyedes, and the Crim- 
Tartars, are the only fwarthy or tawny Europeans. 
Like them are the Afiatic Samopedes, the Ojiiacks, 
and the Tangos. I'he inhabitants of Grand Tar- 
tary are dark, or of an olive-colour. 
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