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from tlie cases just mentioned out of tlie animal kingdom, 
nothing is more natural than to suppose that a change from 
the wild life of savage hunters and nomad wanderers, for the 
fertile plains, rich harvests, and more civilized life of a settled 
people in the south of Europe, would prove amply sufficient 
for this modification in physical form and appearance. 
16. The condition of the Jews in various parts of the world 
presents us with similar results; for in Saxony^ we find that 
blue eyes are not infrequent among them, and that m Spam 
and Portugal their skins are darker than in Britain, while m 
Russia and Poland they not infrequently have red hair. I will 
not lay stress on what are called the black Jews of the Malabar 
coast, because the colony there consists both of white and 
black members, and, according to the best evidence I can 
collect, the Hindu complexion of the latter, and their very 
imperfect resemblance to the European Jews, indicate that 
they were detached from their parent stock in Judaea many 
ao-es before their brethren in the West, and that, during that 
tune, they have intermarried with the Hindus;* indeed, the 
white Jews look upon the so-called black Jews as an inferior 
people; and Hr. Wolff affirms that the latter are either Hindu 
proselytes or a mixed race.f 
17. But if climate did not blacken these Malabar Jews, it 
mav be asked, What made many of the natives themselves 
black ? How are we to account for the more than tawny — the 
almost African — darkness of many of the Hindus throughout 
different parts of India ? Any full answer to this question 
would take me so far from .my present subject that I dare 
not enter upon it ; but I may observe in passing, that it 
the opinion of several illustrious writers (Sir W. Jones, Pro- 
fessor Ritter, and others) be true, viz., that the aboriginal 
population of India from the Himalayas to the Deccan was 
more or less of Negro origin, J the difficulty is easily solved. 
18. Reverting, however, to the effects of climate, let me 
refer to the alteration which has been produced upon the 
typical physiognomy of the English in the United. States, 
where a few centuries of localization on that continent has 
been enough to produce a distinct sub-variety of mankind. 
Long-continued residence in a new climate has also not 
been without an effect even on the Negroes themselves. 
Dr. Carpenter says that in our old West-Indian colonies, the 
* This was the opinion of the Rev. Claudius Buchanan, who spent some 
time among these persons, and investigated the subject fully. 
+ Dr. Wolff’s Missionary Researches, p. 308. . 
X See this question slightly discussed in Prichard’s Researches into the 
Physical History of Mankind, vol. iv. p. 228. 
