Observations on the climate in different parts of America : compared with the climate in corresponding parts of the other continent : to which are added, remarks on the different complexions of the human race ; with some account of the aborigines of America : being an introductory discourse to the History of North-Carolina / by Hugh Williamson, M.D. LL. D. member of the Holland Society of Sciences, of the Society of Arts and Sciences of Utrecht, of the American Philosophical Society, &c.

Hugh Williamson

Date:: 1811

Credit: Observations on the climate in different parts of America : compared with the climate in corresponding parts of the other continent : to which are added, remarks on the different complexions of the human race ; with some account of the aborigines of America : being an introductory discourse to the History of North-Carolina / by Hugh Williamson, M.D. LL. D. member of the Holland Society of Sciences, of the Society of Arts and Sciences of Utrecht, of the American Philosophical Society, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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gratuitous and bold assertions of certain modern philosophers, arc capable of demonstration, or other the most satisfactory proof; but I have attempted to give little else than sketches or outlines of a few ar- guments ; and those are chiefly thrown into margi- nal notes, lest the reader's patience should be ex- hausted. It will be observed, that sundry facts are stated, in the following discourse, for which I have not given the authorities. Some of those facts were noted long since, for the help of my own memory. They were taken, in every case, from respectable sources, whose veracity I could not question. But in several instances the names were omitted and are now forgotten. The late Drs. Hahn and Luchman, while I studied at Utrecht under their care, were pleased to show me observations they had made; one of them de calore; the other de varieta- tibus generis humani. I am not informed whe- ther any thing, on these subjects, has been pub- lished in their names. I had the misfortune to lose papers, during the revolutionary war, that had been the fruit of some reading; they fell into the hands of the enemy. Although excuses cannot be admitted for a crude performance, this work, as I conceive, would have been more correct, if the manuscripts referred to had been preserved. Little of my time since that

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