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 He has an odor that is inoffensive to himself, but is personally offensive to the white man.

The hair of the white man is straight and cylindrical, and of various colors—the black man's is curly and oval, and uniformly black. The Mongolian and the Indian's is also black, but straight. The Malayan's is black, bushy and frizzly. The leg bones of the black man are longer and flatter; His shin bone stands more central in the muscles of his leg: His thighs are thinner, longer, and flatter; His head and heels project further back; The sides of his chest are flatter; The expansibility of his lungs is much less than the white man's. His blood is thinner, darker, more venous and carbonaceous; lower in temperature, by two degrees; and different in its globules and its coagulation, from the white man's. The skull of a black infant is undivided, like a gourd; whereas the skull of a white infant has six plates and a corresponding number of sutures. The liquid in his gall is darker than it is in the white man's. (Dr. Barriere, of England, in his Work, of an early period, says "it is black, and being mixed with their blood, is deposited between their skin and scarf skin; and that the cause of this remarkable difference from the rest of the human species, has much perplexed the Naturalists.") His lungs and the orifices in them, are much smaller; His liver is much larger; The fibres of his muscles are courser, and the muscles themselves are more grossly developed; His skin is courser, thicker and tougher than the white man's.