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Show 208 ON THE SLAVERY AND COMM£RCli in fl10rt, . that there appear to be as many different fpecies of Jews, as there are countries in which they refide. To thefe faCl:s we flnll add the following obfervation, that if we can give credit to the ancient hiftorians in general, a change from the darkeft black to the pureft white mull: have aCtually been accomplilhed. One infiance, perhaps, may be thought fufficient. ·:li Herodotus relates, that the Co/chi "vere black, and that they had crijped hair. Thefe people were a detachment of the !Ethiopian atmy under Sifqjlris, who followed him in his expedition, and fettled in that part of the world, where Co/chis is ufually reprefen ted to have been lituated. Had not the fame author informed us of this circumfiance, we lhould have thought itt firange, that a people of this defcription lhould have been found in fuch a latitude. Now, as • Herodotus. Euterpe. p. So. Editio Stephani, printed 1570· t This circumUancc confirms what we faid in a former note, p. :zoJ, that even if two nations were to be found in the fame parallel, one of whom was black, and the other white, it would form no objc8.ion againll: the hypothefis of climate, as one of them might have been new fettlcrs from a diftant country. they oF THE H uMAN SPECIES. 209 they were undoubtedly fettled there, and as they were neither fo totally deftroycd, nor made any fuch rapid conquefts, as that hiftory !hould notice the event, there is great reafon to prefume, that their defcendants continued in the fame, or fettled in the adjacent country; from whence it will follow, that they muft have changed their complexion to that, which is obfervable in the inhabitants of this particular region at the prefent d~y; or, in other words, that the black inhabitant of Co/chis muft have been changed into the *fair Circa.!Jian. As we have now !hewn it to be highly probable, from the faCJ.s which have been advanced, that climate is the caufe of the difference of colour which prevails in the different inhabitants of the globe, we !hall now lhew its probability from fo limilar • Suppofc, wilhout the knowledge of any hifi:orian, they ] 1ad made fuch confiderableconquefts, as to havefettled them6 felvcs at the diftance of I Ooo miles in any one direCtion from Co/chis, ftill they muft have changed their c;:olour. For had they gone in an Eaftern or Weftern direUion, they muft have been of the fame colour as the Cirra.Jlians ; if to the north, whiter; if to the fouth, of a copper. There are no people within that diltance of Cohhi;, who are black. 0 an |