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satisfactorily. Naturalists & travellers
who have explored most parts of the globe
and were able to draw comparisons
with such other human races from their early
observation, are still as far as I can find
out in great doubt & uncertainty, more or
less divided in opinion. In fact the study
of the various human tribes is by no means
completed. So much however we may say
that the [word crossed out] Aborigines of this Country like
most of the Polynesian races give pretty
clear proof of an Asiatic origin whether
they be of Mongolian or Tartar or Caucasian
^Papuan, mixture, of Asiatic African
or Malay [words crossed out] ^ families is difficult to say
Probably a mixture of the Mongolian & Malay.
Indeed they seem to be a mixed race and
their features, color, hair vary much.
They have not the wooly hair of the Negro,
their hair is quite strait, their noses are flat
yet not generally so flat as the African their
^Their jaws are generally very [indecipherable]
nostrils widely spaced. ^ Their face [words crossed out] not
so round generally as the Negroes rather longer