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who inhabit all that vast space of Asia from the great Ocean to the Caspian Sen. They have broad foreheads and narrow chins, small sunk eyes, high cheek-bones, short and flat noses, large and separated teeth, short set statures, and olive complexions.

311. The Tartars have no settled habitation; but wander from place to place, and live with their horses and herds under tents covered with hides. The Chinese are the most numerous people in the world, inhabit the finest climate, and cultivate, with success, all the arts and sci

ences.

The Japanese inhabit certain large islands, and are not inferior to the Chinese in industry and ingenuity; but wisely allow little or no intercourse with meddling foreigners.

312. Another distinct family of the human race, are the black and swarthy inhabitants of India, and of the Islands of the Indian Ocean. They have European features, long black straight hair, and slender shapes. Their manners are effeminate; but their dresses and houses are very elegant.

Many millions of them, called Gentoos, never eat flesh, or any thing that has lived; but subsist chiefly on rice and fruits, and enjoy health, strength, and long life.

313. The peaceable habits of the Hindoos have, in all ages, rendered them a prey to fo reign invaders. The Tartars have frequently invaded and plundered them.

Latterly, the Europeau nations. particularly

the English, have established themselves among them: but though they have sometimes committed excesses, yet they are happily introducing among the natives, the arts, philosophy, and the religion of Europe.

814. The fourth variety of the human species, and the most remarkable of the whole, are the Negroes of Africa. Their black colour, their woolly heads, their flat noses, and thick lips, are well known among us.

For many ages an infamous and most shocking traffic was carried on in these poor people, who were torn from their country to work in the sugar-plantations of the West Indies; but, happily, the slave-trade carried on by British merchants has been abolished. There is also now a prospect that other nations, particularly the Spanish and Portuguese, through the intervention of Great Britain, will shortly abolish this nefarious trade.

315. These simple people inhabit all the coasts and interior of Africa between the tropics, and have been retained in a barbarous state by the effects of the slave-trade; which induced their tribes and nations to make war on each other, for the purpose of stealing the people, and selling them for slaves to Europeans.

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$16. The next distinct family of men, are the native American Indians, spread in smail tribes over the whole of that vast continent. They are of a dark copper-colour, have black hair, and small black eyes, high cheek-bones, and frequently flat noses

As the Europeans advance, the natives retire, and form the inhabitants of what are calledthe Back Settlements.

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317. The sixth variety of the European race, are the English, the French, the Germans, Italians, Spaniards, and other modern nations. These had their origin partly from the Scandinavians, (Swedes and Goths,) characterized by light hair and blue eyes; and from the Celts, distinguished by black eyes and black hair.

The Swedes, English, Irish, Scotch, and Germans, are very fair; but the Italians, French, and Spaniards, are swarthy.

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318. The clear complexion of the Europeans is best adapted to express the passions of the soul and the health of the body; while the energy of their understandings, and the vigour of their corporeal frames, qualify them to carry all the arts to perfection; and to raise man to that scale of eminence, to which he seems to have been fitted and destined by his Creator.

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