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ful and opposite causes are fully adequate to ac-count for the difference in the effects.
  His lordship confesses that "it has lately been dis-covered, by the Pere Hel, an Hungarian, that the Laplanders were originally Huns."
  Per Hel has, no doubt, given authentic evidence of the fact, in the striking similarity which exists between the elementary principles of the two langua-ges, as appears by the conviction it has produced in this learned and ingenious writer.  But how shall we account for it, unless it be from the prepossessions created by his theory, that it should not have occur-ed to him, that from the same Huns, are descend-ed, likewise, some of the fairest, and most beauti-ful nations of Europe?
  As an objection against the power of climate to change the complexion, he says, "the Moguls, and the southern Chinese are white."  If he means that they are not black, it is true.  But if he means that their complexion is, in any degree, to be compared to the whiteness of the Europeans, he has been egre-giously misinformed.  That the Moguls are less discoloured than some other nations in the same lati-tudes, is to be ascribed to the state of civilization

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at which they had arrived previously to their taking possession of their present seats.   Migrating origin-ally from a high temperate latitude, the arts of civ-ilized life have enabled them to preserve their col-our against the worst effects of their present more southern exposure.
  He is not less misinformed when he says, that Zaara is as hot as Guinea, and Abyssinia hotter than Monomotapa; yet, he adds, the inhabitants of the former are not so black as those of the latter."--Zaara is not so hot as Guinea; nor is Abyssinia hotter than Monomotapa.  But if the temperature of these countries were equal, there are other causes which produce a wide difference between the figure and complexion of the nations which respectively inhabit them.  The Abyssinians, who derive their origin from Arabia, are enabled, by their partial civilization, to preserve some resemblance to the features of their ancestors.  Their high and moun-tainous elevation, raises them above the region of ex-treme heat in the tropical latitudes of Africa.  The Monomotapans are evidently descended from the ne-groes of the equator.  And their savage habits ahve continued amount that portion of the people, who
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