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57 his race until he has witnessed this display, their rapidity seems that of animals of deerlike nature, their movements are so perfectly free & so unlike the motions of the white man. Tho' surpassed by the Anglo Saxon in strength & powerful muscular development they possess a symmetry of form & equality of development, un known to those who are engaged in one particular employment, developing one set of muscles at the expense of the others & losing activity? in acquiring power. But one fault may be found with the figure of the Indian, the arms are often a little too effeminate & small from want of exercise - In other respects they realize our ideas of the classic purity of form displayed in Grecian art. Their