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 continually on a long Succeion of Generations. At preent, that the Nations cattered over the Face of the Earth are better united by Trade, Travelling, and Conquet, and their Manners and Cutoms grow every Day more and more like each other in Conequence of a more frequent Intercoure, certain national Differences are greatly diminihed. For Example, it is plain that the French are no longer thoe large, fair haired and fair kinned Bodies decribed by Latin Hitorians, though Time, aited by the Mixture of Franks and Normans equally fair, hould, one would imagine, have retored what the Climate, by the frequent Viits of the Romans, might have lot of its Influence over the natural Contitution and Complexion of the Inhabitants. All thee Obervations on the Varieties, which a thouand Caues can produce and have in fact produced in the Human Species, make me doubt if everal Animals, which Travellers have taken for Beats, for Want of examining them properly, on account of ome Difference they oberved in their exterior Configuration, or merely becaue thee Animals did not peak, were not in fact true Men, (though in a avage State,)