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ty so frequently found united with the profession of arms; the latter, poor and laborious, exposed to in-numerable hardships and privations, and left, by their laws and their religion, without the hope of improv-ing their conditions, or the spirit to attempt it, have become timid and servile in the expression of their countenance, dimunitive, and often deformed in their persons, and marked by a deeper shade than their superiors in their complexion. In france, says Buffon, you may distinguish by their appearance, not only the nobility from the peasantry, but the su-perior orders of nobility from the inferior, these from the citizens, and the citizens from the peasants. You may even distinguish the peasants of one part of the country from those of another, according to the fertility of the soil, or the nature of its product.
--And I have been assured by a most judicious and accurate observer of men and manners, a native of Scotland,* that there is a sensible and striking dif-ference between the people in the eastern, and those in the western counties of that kingdom. The far-mers who cultivate the fertile lands of the Lothians

*The late Rev. Dr. Witherspoon, President of the College of New-Jersey.

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have generally a fairer complexion, and a better figure, than those who live in the West, and draw a more coarse and scanty subsisten from a thin and ungrateful soil.*

*It is well known to those who have been accustomed carefully to observe human nature, that coarse and meagre food is commonly unfavorable both to softness and regularity of features, and to the fairness of the complexion. Every change of diet, as I have before remarked, and every variety in the manner of cooking and preparing it for use, is accom-panied with some alteration in the system. I have several times witnessed, in my own family, and in those of my friends, the most pleasing changes take place in poor children taken in to service for a term of years, who, in a short period have ex-changed their sallow skin, and emaciated appearances, the ef-fect of want and hardship, for a healthful countenance, and clear complexion.

Difference of food, and treatment equally affects the inferior animals. The flesh of many species of game differs both in colour and in flavor according to the nature of the grounds on which they have fed. The flesh of hares, it is remarked by Buffon, that have fed on high lands is much fairer than of those which have fed in vallies, and in damp places. And every keeper of cattle knows how much the firmness and flavor of the meat depends upon the manner of feeding. According to the nature of the food, and the care and treatment bestowed upon them, all domestic animals are infinitely varied in size and shape. The Spaniards inform us that the swine in Cuba grow to nearly double the size of their parent stock in Europe. And according to the testimony of Clavigero, black cattle arrive at a much greater volume of body in the rich forests, and the temperate climate of Paraguay, then the cattle of Spain, from which