LOOK ING-GL ASS. 
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From the habit of feeing and admiring their per- 
fons, they are- flattered in the higheft degree with 
the idea of being moft favoured by Nature with 
that tin6fure of the fkin which Europeans conhder 
as frightful and gloomy. Thus familiarized with 
his beauty, the blackamoor makes a laughing-ftock 
of fuch of his neighbours as are deficient in that 
perfonal j^^tty charm which forms his pride. This 
def'ff is vifikle in Congo, Sierra Leone, and on the 
coaft of Malagvatta. 
This race of men extends as far as Cape Negro. 
Their jetty black gives way to the footy and fwarthy 
air among the Hottentots, \n Caffraria, Monomotapa, 
S of ala, Mozambique, Melinda, Madaga/car, and 
the neighbouring ifles. 
There are, likewife, Afiatic blacks mixed with 
the inhabitants of countries already mentioned; 
particularly in the Philippine iflands, the peninfu- 
la of Malacca, the ifles of Sumatra and Sombreo, 
as well as in New Guinea and New Holland. 
After all thefe obfervations, feveral fyftems have 
been fet up, in order to account for, and explain, 
the caufes of fuch a Ikin-deep colour as diflinguifhes 
fo confiderable a part of the creation. But, fince 
fome of the opinions darted appear abfurd, a few 
refle6tions on this fubjedt may prove acceptable. 
The flimy moifture in the pores is the principal 
fubftance that contains the tin61ure of the fkin in 
all living creatures, from man to the vegetable. 
This 
