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[indecipherable] coasts. I should therefore incline
on the notion that they are a mixture of
the Asiatic & African. When it is borne in
mind that the different climates, different
[indecipherable] of food, difference of living & manners
[indecipherable]erate much on the human frame and
that a tribe sprung from an inferior
family [letter crossed out] in consequence of so fresh
admixture of blood may thus gradually
degenerate or possibly improve or retain
[indecipherable] peculiar original featues & charact-
istics we need not wonder at the
[indecipherable] tribes & races in these [word crossed out] islands
even in this Continent, though the inhabitants
in Australia seem all to have a great
semblance whilst even the same tribe
may exhibit specimens of different growth.
formation. Their language also seems
as far as has been ascertained, a resemblance
of the Malay [words crossed out]
Again, it has been ascertained that the
language of the Aborigines of this country
[word crossed out] bears some similarity to tribes of the
[indecipherable] islands even to that of the Nw Zea-
landers whilst the latter otherwise differ much

[indecipherable] coasts. I should therefoe incline
on the notion that they are a mixture of
the Asiatic & African. When it is borne in
mind that the different climates, different
[indecipherable] of food, differenceof living & manners
[indecipherable] much on the human frame and
that a tribe sprung from an inferior
family [letter crossed out] in consequence of so fresh
admixture of blood may thus gradually
degenerate or possibly improve or retain
[indecipherable] peculiar original featues & charact-
istics we need not wonder at the
[indecipherable] tribes & races in these [word crossed out] islands
even in this Continent, though the inhabitants
in Australia seem all to have a great
semblance whilst even the same tribe
may exhibit specimens of different growth.
formation. Their language also seems
as far as has been ascertained, a resemblance
of the Malay [words crossed out]
Again, it has been ascertained that the
language of the Aborigines of this country
[word crossed out] bears some similarity to tribes of the
[indecipherable] islands even to that of the Nw Zea-
landers whilst the latter otherwise differ much