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ans have, and to be the Caufe of all Whitenefsin 
the Complexions of Men, or Changes from a dark 
to a fairer Complexion, might have upon the Co- 
lour of Negroes} but this we are affured of, that 
they are not of fo deep a Black, in cold northern, 
as in the hotter foutherly Regions. — Beltdes, we 
want not fome convincing Inftances, from the Glean- 
ings of the few Hiftorians I was furnifhed with here, 
to fhew that fuch Changes have happened in the 
Memory of Men, and within the Compafsof thofe 
Records we have of Time} for we could not fup- 
pofe it to have happened all at once: Thus Hero - 
doPus tells us (a), That the Colchi were formerly 
black, with frizzled Hair ; which (he fays) he re- 
lates rather as a Thing well known before, than a 
bare Report} but there is no Sign of any Blacknefs 
in the Complexions of their Defcendants, they being 
rather, efpecially about Circajfia , reckoned fome 
of the fairefb People in the World at this Day. — 
Captain Smith tells us, that, even in Virginia , an 
Englishman , by living only three Years among the 
Indians , became “ fo like an Indian , in Habit and 
“ Complexion, that he knew him not but by his 
tc Tongue (b) And what might his Children have 
turned to in a Succdfion of many Generations, 
by thefe fame Ways of Life, which had fo altered 
him in three Years? — The Moors and Lybians y 
being drove out of Africa , upon the Turkifo Con- 
queft, retired to the Land of the Negroes _(rjhi 
but 
{a) Euterpe, 104. (£)• -tuft. Virginia, p. .1 16. (c) t-?o 
Hiffi . Atric. par. 1. fed. 3. 
