[Footnote 92: See Buffon, Hist. Naturelle, tom. iii. p. 449.
This Arab cast of features and complexion, which has
continued 3400 years (Ludolpb. Hist. et Comment. Aethiopic.
l. i. c. 4) in the colony of Abyssinia, will justify the
suspicion, that race, as well as climate, must have
contributed to form the negroes of the adjacent and similar
regions.
Note: Mr. Salt (Travels, vol. ii. p. 458) considers them to
be distinct from the Arabs - "in feature, color, habit, and
manners." - M.]