The NEW HOLLANDERS are the most miserable and dirty of the human species; and the least removed from brutes.

The inhabitants of the temperate climes, the MOGULS, the PERSIANS, TURKS, GEORGIANS, GREEKS, and the nations of EUROPE, are considered as the handsomest, wisest, and best formed of all the inhabitants of the globe.

Few lame or crooked persons, however, are seen among the American Savages or the Turks.

The features and proportions of the HorTENTOTS are different from, though in many respects conformable to, those of the NEGRO.

The NEGRO Scarcely requires description: his flat nose, thick lips, and projecting mouth, are well known; as, also, are his woolly kind of hair, and his jet black complexion.

The NEGROES are as various as the Whites.

In Guinea, the blacks are extremely ugly, and emit a strong, disgusting scent. American negroes are sullen, artful, and cunning, and remarkably fond of music. Many of them can play the most difficult tune after once hearing it. In numerous instances they discover peculiar strength of intellect; and there is reason to suppose, were they to enjoy the blessings of liberty and education, in common with the whites, they would display talents as bright as those of fairer aspect and more beautiful

exterior.

The AMERICAN SAVAGE, or NATIVE INDIAN, is distinguished by his copper hue, small eyebrows, and want of beard. These people are tall; have long black hair; are of a straight, slender, and active form; have a wild expression, and savage countenance. Their leading desire is a passion for the chase and for war. They appear to excel the civilized nations in courage and modesty. The savage meets torture, and even death itself, with an envied calmness; and he is never known to bathe without a

partial covering: an act of decency which white men too often neglect.

We may always discover what is national in the countenance, better from the sight of an individual, at first, than of a whole people. Individual countenances discover more the characteristics of a whole nation, than a whole nation does that which is national in individuals. Those who know the character of various nations from habitude, can immediately distinguish the people of one country from those of another, by their observations on an individual of any.

This knowledge arises from viewing their various forms of face, variation in voice, gesture, and the particular expression of countenance of each. The French, Dutch, Germans, Spaniards, Italians, English, Scots, and Irish, have each a peculiar nationality of face.

The serene, placid, peaceful countenances of the people called QUAKERS, display, in very

striking characters, the absence of all the turbulent passions. As a sect, they excel all

others in the almost perfect command they have over their passions. They may be denominated a great and strong people, if it were only from the innocent, perhaps laudable, ingenuity, which they manifest in concealing their weaknesses. Long habits of self-examination, and its accompanying virtue, self-control, haye stamped upon their features a most obvious. expression of internal composure and tranquillity of soul. Moving in the centre of their own circumference, and abstracting their thoughts from the vices and frivolities of the age and country they live in, all their looks, gestures, and actions, bespeak them persons of one business-bent upon one object aiming at one end-and aspiring at perfection in every thing they attempt. In those who are what ancient Friends (to use one of their own phrases) would have called true and steady followers of the light of grace in the heart, the most sober zeal and piety are painted in the features-mildness and benevolence beam on

the cheek-love and complacency shine throught the eye; whilst fortitude and courage characterize the forehead. And even in those Friends, who are merely so from birth and education, the same characteristics of perseverance, steadiness, and attention, though directed more to worldly pursuits, are strik, ingly visible.

A Quaker, who is one from conviction and principle, cannot be a morose, vindictive, malicious, or impious character: he who is one from birth only, may possibly be all these; but even he will never be accused of indolence, imbecility, or inattention, so long as he preserves the outward forms of the sect to which he belongs. In both cases, the Quakers furnish a demonstrative evidence of the truth of the physiognomical maxim, that habits of the mind beget corresponding habits of countenance. The Jews, also, furnish a similar proof; and, in a lesser degree, the Moravians; and, still less, the Wesleyan Methodists. But to proceed

with our remarks on national character:

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