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That tawny appearance forms a dark and deeper 
teint along the Red Sea and the eahern lliores of Afri- 
ca, among the Egyptians, Ethiopians, or rather ^^3//- 
finians ; who have been mifreprefented as black, be- 
canfe their country was formerly defcribed as Nubia. 
Such is the diftinguidiing tincfure of the fkin from 
the plains and coaft of Barbary to Senegal ; nay, as 
far as the country inhabited by the Foulefe, whofe 
(kins betray the changing fhade from deep brown, 
or dark, to the jetty looks of blackamoors, — who 
appear in the back-ground of a picture of the hu- 
man race ; where the contraft of colours is not lefs 
ahonilhing than the infinite variety of mingled 
lhades. 
Blackamoors. 
Black is the prevailing colour in the centre of 
Africa, with gradual fhades of difference. This 
jet is darkeft in Nigrilia, Guinea, and Congo, from 
the fouthern bank of the Senegal to rhe river Gam- 
bia, as well as in fome cities fituated more to rhe 
northward, and in the kingdom of Tunis. But in 
Giiaden, or Hoden, to the fouthward of the defert 
of Zanbaga, the black is not fo deeply ftamped on 
the countenance as the dark or fwarthy complexion. 
The negroes of the iflands of Cape verd and Go- 
ree are of that polillied fliining black, which may 
be compared to japan- ware, or fine ivory, or ebony. 
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