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Show 206 ON TUE SLAVERy AND C OMMERCE " Portuguif!! difcoverers with the natives, " and now become, in their complexion and " woo:ly. quality of their hair, per:fecl negroes, retammg however a [mattering of the Portuguife language." Thefe fatl:s, with refpetl: to the colonifl:s of th: Europeam, are of the higheil: importance 111 the prefent cafe; and deferve a ferious attention. For when we know to a certainty from whom they are clefcended; when we know that they were, at the time of their tranfplantation, of the fame colour as thofe from whom they feverally fprung; and when, on the other hand, we are credibly informed, that they have changed it for the n~tive _colour of the place which they now mhab1t; the evid.ence in fupport of thefe fatl:s is as great, as if a perfon, on the removal of two or three families into another cllmate, had determined to afcertain the circumil: ance; as if he had gone with them and watched their children ; as if he had communicated his obfervations at his death to a fucceifor; as if his fuccellor had profecuted the plan, and thus an uninterrupted chain of evidence oF THE HuMAN SPECIES. evidence had been kept up from their fidl: removal to any determined period of fucceeding time. But though thefe fatl:s feem fu flicient of themfelves to confirm our opinion, they are not the only fatl:s which can be adduced in its fupport. It can be f11ewn, that the members of the very ) cum family, when divided from each other, and removed into different countries, have not on 1y changed their family complexion, but that they have changed it to as many dijj'erent colours as they have gone into dijferent regions if the world. We cannot have, perhaps, a more il:riking inil:ance of this, than in the 'Je"os. Thefe people are fcattered over the face of the whole earth. They have preferved themfelves difl:intl: from: the reO: of the world by their religion; and, as they never intermarry with any but thole of their own fetl:, fo they have no mixture of blood in their veins, that they f110uld differ from each other: and yet nothing is more true, than that the *Englijb Jew is white, the Portugu~ft fwarthy, the Armenian olive, and the Arabian copper; • We mean fuch only as are nativts of the countries which we mention, and whofe anceftors have been fettled there for a certain period of time. in |