MY paper, large as it is, draws towards an end.  That I may not go beyond its limits, I must leap from religions to tulips, concerning which you ask me news.  Their mixture produces surprising effects.  But, what is to be observed most surprising, are the experiments of which you speak concerning animals, and which are tried here every day.  The suburbs of Pera, Jophana, and Galata, are collections of strangers from all countries of the universe.  They have so often intermarried, that this forms several races of people, the oddest imaginable.  There is not one single family of natives that can value itself on being unmixed.  You frequently see a person, whose father was born a Grecian, the mother an Italian, the grandfather a Frenchman, the grandmother an Armenian, and their ancestors English, Muscovites, Asiatics, &c.

THIS mixture produces creatures more extraordinary than you can imagine; nor could I ever doubt, but there were several different species of men; since the whites, the woolly and the long-haired blacks, the small-eyed Tartars and Chinese, the beardless Brasilians, and (to name no more) the oily-skinned yellow Nova Zemblians, have as specific differences, under the same general kind, as grey-hounds, mastiffs, spaniels, bull-dogs, or the race of my little Diana, if nobody is offended at the comparison.  Now, as the various intermixing of these latter animals causes mongrels, so mankind have their mongrels too, divided and subdivided into endless sorts.  We have daily proofs of it here, as I told you before.  In the same animal is not seldom remarked the Greek perfidiousness, the Italian diffidence, the Spanish arrogance, the French loquacity; and, all of a sudden, he is seized with a fit of English thoughtfulness, bordering a little upon dulness, which many of us have inherited from the stupidity of our Saxon progenitors.  But the family which charms me most, is that which proceeds from the fantastical conjunction of a Dutch male with a Greek female.  As these are natures opposite in extremes, ’tis a pleasure to observe how the differing atoms are perpetually jarring together in the children, even so as to produce effects visible in their external form.  They have the large black eyes of the country, with the fat, white, fishy flesh of Holland, and a lively air streaked with dulness.  At one and the same time, they shew that love of expensiveness, so universal among the Greeks, and an inclination to the Dutch frugality.  To give an example of this; young women ruin themselves, to purchase jewels for adorning their heads, while they have not the heart to buy new shoes, or rather slippers for their feet, which are commonly in a tattered condition; a thing so contrary to the taste of our English women, that it is for shewing how neatly their feet are dressed, and for shewing this only, they are so passionately enamoured with their hoop petticoats.  I have abundance of other singularities to communicate to you; but I am at the end, both of my French and my paper.