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with only a few well-marked exceptions the races strongest nevertheless if two or three a naturalist examining for the first time a few specimens of the best marked races, for instance of the negro, Hottentot Australian, & Mongolian, for instance, were brought home would find that they differed in a multitude of many points, & that some of their characters which were of importance, as the form of their the skull, their intellectual powers, that degree acclimatisation & liability to certain diseases. Our naturalist & Knowing, also, that they came these men so different in general appearance came from distant countries, he would I think certainly conclude that they were in distinct