nd a _Pomunkee_, _Sapony_, or _Sugarr_ is as fierce and
frightful as any _Amorite_ that dwelt upon or beyond the Mountains; and
_Powhatan_, _Oppechancanough_ and _Wickmaunatauchee_ have fought many
Battles not unlike _Og_, _Sihon_, and _Chederlaomer_.

In my mean Judgment it seems not improbable that when _Noah_ had cursed
the Posterity of _Ham_, and reserved different blessings for _Shem_ and
_Japheth_, God set a distinguishing Colour upon their Bodies, and
ingrafted in their Nature various Tempers, and endowed them with
separate Talents. From whence their Posterity are of three different
Complexions and Countenances, as is apparent in _White_, _Black_, and
_Brown_ People, which by Mixtures, or from Climates or otherwise are
subdivided: Particularly the _brown_ Children of _Shem_ have two
peculiar Aspects different from each other, and distinct from all the
rest; one proper to the _Jews_, the Sons of _Peleg_, and the other
belonging to the _East_ and _West-Indies_, the Sons of _Joktan_,
_Peleg_'s younger Brother.

To the _white_ Posterity of _Japheth_, viz. to the _Europeans_ in
particular are _Noah_'s Words (_Gen._ ix. 27.) very applicable, where he
said, _that God should enlarge_ Japheth, _and he should dwell in the
Tents of_ Shem, _and_ Canaan _shall be his Servant_; which seems
fulfilled in our Possession of Lands in the _East_ and _West-Indies_,
the Tents of the Sons of _Shem_, where _Canaan_ or the _Negroe_ is our
Servant and Slave; and as it is said of him in the 25{th} Verse, _a
Servant of Servants is_ Canaan _unto his Brethren_.

For the _Negroes_ seem evidently to be Descendants from some of the Sons
of _Canaan_. For it is not to be supposed that the _Jews_ destroyed them
all, for the _Families of the_ Canaanites _were spread abroad_, Gen. x.
18. so that probably in process of Time they possessed _Africa_. As for
the _Blessing upon_ Shem in the 26{th} Verse, and _Canaan being his
Servant_; this appears to be fulfilled in the _Jews_ in Part, descended
from _Peleg_, _Heber_'s eldest Son; from whom sprung _Abraham_ the
Father of the Faithful, in whose Seed the Lord God of _Shem_ may be said
to be blessed according to _Noah_'s Prophecy, who made Part of _Canaan_
Slaves, and took them Captive. And as for the other Branches of _Shem_'s
Posterity by _Joktan_ (which Sound is not quite lost in either of the
_Indies_) I take them to be the _East_ and _West-Indians_, _Chinese_,
and _Tartars_; and it may be the _Persia