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tain or Ireland, from whom the greater part of our population is descended. But the extremely meagre aspect of that class to which I refer, may arise from their situation, which exposes them more to the unmitigated influences of a climate that is, at present, very unhealthy from the intensity of its heat acting on the great quantity of its stagnant waters and infeeting the atmosphere, during the hot season, with putrid exhalations. And, I have before remarked, that the changes created in the human constitution by migrating from dry, to moist regions, and from temperate to very warm latitudes, are, in the first instance generally diseases. Hereafter, when the constitution shall become more accommodated to the climate, as it may, in time, adapt itself to any situation on the globe, these people will present to the eye a less haggard, and diseased appearance; but they will probably forever exhibit a very thin and meagre habit of body, and a very swarthy hue.

Examples taken from the descendant of Europeans in America are the stronger because the climate has not yet had time to impress upon them its full character. And the change which will ultimately be produced in the American constitution has been 

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retarded, not only by the arts of civilized society,* but by the continual intermixture of new colonies of emigrants from Europe with the natives of the country.

To those who have surveyed this subject in a hasty and superficial manner, these changes may appear to advance more slowly to their ultimate point than is consistent with the principles hitherto laid down. But it will be recollected that all national changes, whether moral or physical, usually advance by almost imperceptible gradations.[[symbol]] cross [[/symbol]] Many cen-

[[margin note]] * In savage life men more easily receive the impressions of the climate than in civilized society, because they are exposed to its full force without any means of defence. Indeed, whatever art they possess is usually employed, not in defending themselves from its influences, but in heightening the dark colour of the skin. But independently on the application of any art, the same consequences would result, in a degree, from the extreme neglect and filthiest of their persons. [[/margin note]]

[[margin note]] [[symbol]] cross [[/symbol]] It deserves to be remarked that the natives of the West-India islands, even of those settled by the English and Danes, and the fairest European nations, are already become very dark in their complexion, and approaching to a copper hue, although three centuries have not yet elapsed since those settlements were first established. The descendants of the Spaniards in South-America are become absolutely copper colored. [See Phil. Trans. of Roy. Soc. Lond. No.476. Sect.4.] The Por- [[/margin note]]