plainly see that Mowers, Reapers, and other Countrey-people, who spend the most part of the Hot Summer dayes expos'd to the Sun, have the skin of their Hands and Faces, which are the parts immediately Expos'd to the Sun and Air, made of a Darker Colour than before, and consequently tending to Blackness; And Contrarywise we observe that the _Danes_ and some other people that Inhabit Cold Climates, and even the _English_ who feel not so Rigorous a Cold, have usually Whiter faces than the _Spaniards_, _Portugalls_ and other European Inhabitants of Hotter Climates. But this Argument I take to be far more Specious than Convincing; for though the Heat of the Sun may Darken the Colour of the Skin, by that Operation, which we in _English_ call Sun-burning, yet Experience doth not Evince, that I remember, That that Heat alone can produce a Discolouring that shall amount to a true Blackness, like that of _Negroes_, and we shall see by and by that even the Children of some _Negroes_ not yet 10. dayes Old (perhaps not so much by three quarters of that time) will notwithstanding their Infancy be of the same Hue with their Parents. Besides, there is this strong Argument to be alleg'd against the Vulgar Opinion, that in divers places in _Asia_ under the same Parallel, or even of the same Degree of Latitude with the _African_ Regions Inhabited by Blacks, the People are at most but Tawny;[10] And in _Africa_ it self divers Nations in the Empire of _Ethiopia_ are not _Negroes_, though Situated in the Torrid Zone, and as neer the Æquinoctial, as other Nations that are so (as the Black Inhabitants of _Zeylan_ and _Malabar_ are not in our Globes plac'd so near the Line as _Amara_ the Famousest place in _Ethiopia_.) Moreover, (that which is of no small Moment in our present Disquisition) I find not by the best Navigators and Travellers to the _West-Indies_, whose Books or themselves I have consulted on this Subject, that excepting perhaps one place or two of small extent, there are any Blacks Originally Natives of any part of _America_ (for the Blacks now there have been by the _Europeans_ long Transplanted thither) though the New World contain in it so great a Variety of Climates, and particularly reach quite Cross the Torri'd Zone from one Tropick to another. And enough it be true that the _Danes_ be a Whiter People than the _Spaniards_, yet that may proceed rather from other causes (not here to be enquired into) than from the Coldness of the Climate, since not onely the _Swedes_ and other Inhabitants of those Cold Countreys, are not usually so White as the _Danes_, nor Whiter than other Nations in proportion to their Vicinity to the Pole. [And since the Writing of the former part of this Essay, having an opportunity on a Solemn occasion to take Notice of the Numerous Train of Some Extraordinary Embassadours sent from the _Russian_ Emperour to a great Monarch, observ'd, that (though it were then Winter) the Colour of their