ABSTRACT
There are few subjects that can engage the attention of intelligent travellers, more worthy of interest, or on which any additions to our previous stock of information will be more generally appreciated, than ethnology. Under that term is comprised all that relates to human beings, whether regarded as individuals or as members of families or communities. The former head includes the physical history of man; that is, an account of the peculiarities of his bodily form and constitution, as they are displayed in different tribes, and under different circumstances of climate, local situation, clothing, nutrition, and under the various conditions which are supposed to occasion diversities of organic development. The same expression may also, in a wide sense, comprehend all observations tending to illustrate psychology, or the history of the intellectual and moral faculties, the sentiments, feelings, acquired habits, and natural propensities. […]
