[143] Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage, etc., p. 446.
[144] This fact is related by Pallas, Mémoires du Muséum, vol. xvii, p. 238. A Kalmuc saw a body of men thirty versts off [nearly twenty miles English], while the Russian general could see nothing even with a telescope.
[145] It would be interesting to discover if the fact related by Knox (The Races of Men, 1850, p. 271) is true; namely, that the sharpness of sight, which the Bosjesmans possess in a very high degree, is lost immediately on crossing the breed with the whites.
[146] Le Cat, Traité des Sens, 1744; Haller, Elementa Physiologiæ, vol. v, p. 179; Humboldt, Relation Personnelle, vol. iii, p. 229.
[147] See Robin, Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 1845; Zoologie, vol. iv, p. 380.
[148] Histoire des Travaux de Buffon, p. 92.
[149] [“Face to face with the present position of metaphysical thought in England, that anthropology, which can find no higher employment for the human mind than the ascertainment of man’s relations with the baboons, will find no place at all.... We have no real fear that the consequences which may result from the practical application of this law (transmutation) will be prejudicial to religion, morality, or society.... But until the day comes when such a law shall be fully, entirely, and satisfactorily established, we must strenuously protest against the diffusion, even amongst the ‘wider circle of the intelligent public,’ of essays, the object of which is to render ‘Man’s Place in Nature’ closer to that of the brute creation.” C. Carter Blake, Man and Beast (Anthropological Review, vol. i, pp. 154, 161).—Editor.]
[150] See Sömmering, 1785, p. 42.
[151] Sketches of Central Africa.
[152] There is a copy of it at the British Museum.