MAN. 
liis colour, a very striking character, is so 
unlike our own. The observation, that Ne- 
groes resemble monkeys more than those of 
the other varieties, is true in the same sense 
as it might be said, that the variety of the 
pig, which lias a solid hoof, resembles the 
horse more nearly than other pigs ; but the 
comparison itself is not a very important 
one, since it has been made, even by accu- 
rate observers, of several nations in the 
other varieties ; a? the Laplanders, Esqui- 
maux, Caaiguas of South America, the in- 
habitants of the island Mallicollo, &c. 
4. American variety. Red colour; black, 
straight, strong, and thin hair ; short fore- 
heu’ ■ deep eyes ; nose somewhat flattened, 
but prominent ; a broad, but not flattened 
face, with the cheeks standing out, and the 
difibrent features projecting distinctly and 
separately ; the forehead and vertex often 
deformed by art. This variety includes all 
the Americans, with the exception of the 
Esquimaux. 
Several idle tales have been propagated 
concerning the distinguishing characters of 
this race. Sovuve have denied the existence 
of a beard in the male, and that of the 
menstrual discharge in the female; and 
others have ascribed an uniform colour and 
countenance to all the inhabitants of this 
vast continent. The concurring testimonies 
of all accurate modern travellers prove 
clearly that the Americans have naturally 
beards; that it is a very general custom 
with them, as it has been with several Mon- 
golian and Malay tribes, carefully to eradi- 
cate this excrescence; but that various 
hordes in diiferent parts of the continent 
preserve it as other men do. Erom a cloud 
of unanimous reports on this subject we 
select the following statement of the im- 
mortal Cook, respecting the natives of 
Nootka Sound. “ Some have no beards at 
all, and others only a thin one on the point 
of the chin. This does not arise from an 
original deficiency of hair in those parts 
but from their plucking it out by the roots : 
for those who do not destroy it have not 
only considerable beards on every part of 
the cl’.in, but also whiskers, or mustachios 
running from the upper lip to tlie lower jaw’ 
obliquely downwards.” (LastVoyage,vol.ii. 
p. 240.) The observation concerning the 
menses has arisen from the women beincr 
secluded during their appearance. The 
redness of the skin is not so constant, but 
that it varies in many instances towards a 
brown, and approaches likewise in some 
temperate situations to the white colour. 
Cook states, that the natives about Nootka 
Sound are little inferior in fairness to Euro- 
peans ; and Bouguer makes the same ob- 
servation of the Peruvians on the Andes. 
It is also fully ascertained at present, that 
the Americans possess the same varieties of 
feature which are observed in the other 
races. 
5. Malay variety. Brown colour ; hair 
black, soft, curled, and abundant; head mo- 
derately narrow, and forehead slightly arch- 
ed ; nose full and broad towards the apex ; 
large mouth; upper jaw rather prominent; 
the features, vs'hen view'ed in profile, pro- 
jecting and distinct. The inhabitants of the 
peninsula of Malacca, of the South Sea, 
Ladrone, Philippine, Molucca, and Sunda 
islands, are arranged under this division. 
As the Americans in their national cha- 
racters hold the middle place between that 
middle variety of th^ human race, which 
we have called the Caucasians, and one of 
the extremes, viz. the Mongolians ; so the 
Malay forms the connecting link between 
the Caucasian and the Ethiopian. The 
name of Blalay is given to it, because most 
of tlie tribes which it includes, as those 
which Inhabit the Indian islands near Ma- 
lacca, the Sandwich, Society, and Friendly 
islands, also those of Madagascar, and 
thence to Easter island, use the Malay 
language. 
The inhabitants of such various and dis- 
tant countries may reasonably be expected 
to differ considerably in elegance of form, 
and in other circumstances of bodily or- 
ganization. Hence some have even de- 
scribed two races in the island of Otaheite ; 
one of light colour, tall stature, and coun- 
tenance scarcely distinguishable from the 
European: the other of moderate stature, 
with the colour and countenance of the Mu- 
latto, crisp hair, &c. The latter, therefore, 
constitutes an intermediate gradation, pass- 
ing towards the inhabitants of the western 
islands of the Pacific Ocean. And of these 
the men of the New Hebrides form a link 
of connection with those of New Guinea 
and New Holland, which are so very simi- 
lar to the Ethiopian variety, that they might 
be arranged without impropriety under that 
division. 
The varieties which we have just stated 
are so many proofs of that pliancy so wisely 
bestowed by nature on the human constitu- 
tion, to enable it to adapt itself to eveiy 
clime. ’3’hns the goodness of the Creator 
appears, in forming the whole world for 
man, and in opening to him every opportu- 
