Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-12-05
CLIMATE AND PHYSIQUE.
[F.om tn london spaeta:or.I


The no..on thar man foari>hcs best in
Il tsu2a.a ; ciintt2 survives all aEld9n:e.
to the c)nir,rs, and viii be repeated with
perfect coolness by the nam who has Just
Informed you that the lwo mot perfect;
earthly climates, the Tasnanian, which
Is the English climate etheriaEzed, and
the California, which is the Greek c!i-
mate ccoicd, i. oduce the two fceblcst
races OF marEi d. The native Tasman-
iau.and tie bigger Indian are with the
VrIdai the lowssr4 4ecimens of humani-
ty hitherto observed. So far as the very
imperfect evidence atlaITable Will prove,
the physical qualities, strength, size,
COURAGE, and perhaps lndustry-we doubt
if that Is physical quality, but it IS
counted rs one-aYe independent of C. -
mate altogether. and specially independ-
ent Of the thcrmOmcter.
The biggest and strongest race OF earth
the Nubian Of the Upper Nlie. tiOurlshes
in heat which almost boiled Verne,
the traveller who has In st carefully
observed his wonderful muscular dcrel-
opnenc. and can live and grow tat in
spokay0ous from which the most power
! iui fiImi!snmen are carried cut iainting
and hall dead Kaiser Williams
! pomcran;ans are scarcely the equals OF
these men IN physique, aad are not, when
they Choo e, more steadily Industrious.
! 4 .huatal of C0nstantinCp!e or Cairo
would carry Il railway porter OIL his
! shoulders and all his luggage besides,
and Bcnga!ec 5oatman would row Lon
don waterman, Is far as endurance is
concerned, iI.o "a aVPOcc,lc TT. HE
/ Lcnea!ec is weak and the Icgudn Is not
brave. bat the Malay. bou under precise
! n the same conditions. the very condl-
tons to which Hacl1cy attributed the
chcmiuacy Of the Btngalee&, has the
courage Of IL ferret, the activity OF Il
monkey, and the endurance Of Il borough
/ biei horse. Some day OF oJhcr, when
We rei@u ia Cairo, Engishmen will officer
an army Of Ara"s, weD bred in = desert
where the sun seess to hate human
poiucs and pursue them with kind OF
conscious pltliessnC-S. and then ASA Will
know once more Why the Moor seemed
20 tic iaai!cd knigh-S Of france and
pa n - terri ie an euemy.
The Peruvian is soft creature, hut
his climate IS cooler than that of the
fyul.ns rauana and Guiana, where the
h. a est acI fercc.t OF aboriglness, the
Cab. sull maintains his hereditary
rce ION. Out OF the ''aoftly encrvating
Innate as we NortheTncrS deem 1t, or
Ceut,al Ltaiy cane the sternest, bravest
AMI most efficient human being that ever
walked the word, thc fighting Roman
parician who, after thousand years OF
heat, and hxury, and stated y0tuptuous-
ness, Was suii the most formidable officer
with whoaI an enemy could come in
contact; and Ec vas outdOne in courage
by the men who SWarned up from the
blazing slopes OF Palestine ana he fierce
heat Oi liGmca 70 defend she Hoy city.
The scotch and tie Swc'les are con
fcsSedly many people, able TO t0li,- and
t. battle, and to endure but they are
not lnIul:er, OF bray.'r, or more enduring,
than thc planters Jred in those sweltering
ricc-swampS OF South Carolina, or the
hoi ,,bauens'' o. Georgia, or the hotter
lagoons and moras:cs and flooded juuglCs
of Louisiana, where, upon all accepted
conditions, men ought to degenerate into
towards.
We speal;e of the exceptional prolofc-
ne 5 of the Angio-Saxon, who is now
sen ling an army of 100000 men year
to people America and the Southern
continent, and never feels the loss, but
who peopled India and Southern China,
aud the southern shore of the Mediter
ranean, and Spanish America, except
races, who must have lived for ages under
! the sun? 1t was not under hard gray
weather that the Temple of the sun rose
| in Baaibse, or the columns of Luxor, or
the Coliseum, monuments all of them OF
human industry as well ,as Of human
skin and donineering ssergy. Grant
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