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Mr. Baker remarks that “the absence of artl “®® ““^Xre 
of metal in no way proves their excess of savage y , 
there are no metals to work, there are no blacksm^hs Mr. 
ttver also describes “the tribes on the borders of Abyssinia, 
who^re s^UH^a state of superior 
from a land inhabited by the only mdepcndm * are 
nity in the whole of Africa, among whom reading a ^TOtmg 
common, and where the features and forms of the “habitants 
are closely allied to the European, forming a ^eng 
to the tribes who inhabit 
At the same meeting, Dr. Beke, also on the 
traveller, is reported as . having made Bomejemarks on the 
retrogression of civilization among g an d he 
r5S.Sis^= 
to entertain opinions opposed to those 1 h v 
to advance. 
[Still bearing intimately on our subject, a ^e s pecially on an 
important point to which I am anxious to allude before 1 con 
dude, another paper was read the same evenmg by M. 
^1f«ndLSTtdS whthta n dl^ly failed 
even the wearing of clothes producing consumption. Ur. 
Mouet, however, spoke of other similar at ^®“^ t ^ nd ff ° rt ° n ® ia d e 
ceptional case, that of a young girl, m which the ettorts n 
K V Zt S ;Z S :^J case to prove ***^.™%* 
or tri r;s£ o^%r c ?rwVttX P Vtbtgh\tma^ 
be^ question whether the process of degeneration may not 
sometimes proceed so far as to render the 
afterwards impossible. My argument has been, ^dthese lo^ 
^^tz^has^aid^urthOT/that they neither 
barbarous state, nor do they exhibit . any desir fc l«^t 
SZii “ d 
lower. 
