An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human SpeciesJ. Simpson and Company, 1810 - 411 |
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... latitudes , with a ruddy , and sanguine complexion , which is * It will be of importance to bear in mind throughout this essay , that the causes affecting the physical or moral constitu- tion of man , and ultimately producing great ...
... latitudes , with a ruddy , and sanguine complexion , which is * It will be of importance to bear in mind throughout this essay , that the causes affecting the physical or moral constitu- tion of man , and ultimately producing great ...
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... latitudes of the temperate zone , which may indicate the affinity of those people with the inhabitants of the frigid zone , or rather the correspondence of the influences of these neighbouring climates . Near the boundary line , the ...
... latitudes of the temperate zone , which may indicate the affinity of those people with the inhabitants of the frigid zone , or rather the correspondence of the influences of these neighbouring climates . Near the boundary line , the ...
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... latitudes nearer the equator ; for this great body of water being of a more equal temperature than the land , in one ... latitude . The frigid zone in Asia , if I may give this denomination to the entire region of prevailing cold in that ...
... latitudes nearer the equator ; for this great body of water being of a more equal temperature than the land , in one ... latitude . The frigid zone in Asia , if I may give this denomination to the entire region of prevailing cold in that ...
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... latitude , is subject- ed to a much greater heat than is experienced in the same parallels in Europe ; but between ... latitudes in Eu- rope , while the southern declivity of that continent is propor- ionably warmer . and the state of ...
... latitude , is subject- ed to a much greater heat than is experienced in the same parallels in Europe ; but between ... latitudes in Eu- rope , while the southern declivity of that continent is propor- ionably warmer . and the state of ...
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... latitudes than countries laid open to the full action of the solar influence . * In winter the moisture of the atmosphere is congealed into more abundant snows , and in summer descends in more frequent and copious showers of rain . When ...
... latitudes than countries laid open to the full action of the solar influence . * In winter the moisture of the atmosphere is congealed into more abundant snows , and in summer descends in more frequent and copious showers of rain . When ...
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