The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (1.1787)

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their eyes appear little, and think when in ad-
dition to them they pofTefs a broken nofe,
long, broad, and hanging ears, they become
perfect beauties. (IV.) The Negro fcarce
requires defcription; his flat nofe and thick
lips are well known; as are his woolly kind
of hair, and his jet-black complexion. I fhall
not entertain you with (V.) The Hottentot,
whofe features and proportions are yet differ-
ent from, though in many refpe£ts conform-
able to thofe of the Negro. (VI.) The na-
tives of North-America form another clafs
of men whofe complexion varies from that of
others, as (VII.) thofe of South-America
vary from thofe of the North. All thefe
people (not to notice their fmaller differences)
are totally diftincl from (VIII.) the race of
Europeans in thefe temperate latitudes.

It were endlefs to enumerate the variety of
national features inEurope alone, which yet are
:fo ftrongly marked, that any perfon converfant
with them perceives at once the natives of
each country by that caft of countenance pro-
per to it. I fhall only further obferve, that
however difperfed among the nations of the
earth, the Jews are a people not related or
allied to any of them, but continue peculiar
and diftinft.

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