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140 of CHARACTER. [lECT. vi.
noses, the iris yellow-brown, inclined to black, the
eye-brows drawn back towards the temples, high
cheeks, large mouths, thick lips, and black hair ;
their heads so large as to contain full one-fifth of the
whole figure ; the major part are about four feet
high ; tall persons among them about four and a
half: the sexes are scarcely to be distinguished by
their appearance.
II. The Tartars, are a variety, whose faces are
large, and wrinkled even in youth ; their noses thick
and short, their cheeks high, the lower parts of their
faces narrow, their chins long and prominent, their
eyebrows very thick, and their figures of answerable
dimensions.
III. The Chinese have small eves, and large
eyelids, small noses, and as it were broken ; seven
or eight bristles of a beard on each lip, and scarce
any on the chin : the women use every art to make
their eyes appear little ; and when, in addition to
small eyes, they possess a broken nose, long, broad,
and hanging ears, they suppose themselves perfect
beauties.
IV. The Negro scarce requires description; his
flat nose and thick lips are well known ; as are his
woolly kind of hair, and his jet-black complexion.
V. The features and proportions of the Hotten-
tot are yet different from, though in many respects
conformable to, those of the Negro.
VI. The natives of North-America form an-
other class of men, whose complexion varies from
that of others ; as
VII. Those
noses, the iris yellow-brown, inclined to black, the
eye-brows drawn back towards the temples, high
cheeks, large mouths, thick lips, and black hair ;
their heads so large as to contain full one-fifth of the
whole figure ; the major part are about four feet
high ; tall persons among them about four and a
half: the sexes are scarcely to be distinguished by
their appearance.
II. The Tartars, are a variety, whose faces are
large, and wrinkled even in youth ; their noses thick
and short, their cheeks high, the lower parts of their
faces narrow, their chins long and prominent, their
eyebrows very thick, and their figures of answerable
dimensions.
III. The Chinese have small eves, and large
eyelids, small noses, and as it were broken ; seven
or eight bristles of a beard on each lip, and scarce
any on the chin : the women use every art to make
their eyes appear little ; and when, in addition to
small eyes, they possess a broken nose, long, broad,
and hanging ears, they suppose themselves perfect
beauties.
IV. The Negro scarce requires description; his
flat nose and thick lips are well known ; as are his
woolly kind of hair, and his jet-black complexion.
V. The features and proportions of the Hotten-
tot are yet different from, though in many respects
conformable to, those of the Negro.
VI. The natives of North-America form an-
other class of men, whose complexion varies from
that of others ; as
VII. Those