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If we suppose moreover, what is very possible that a few families  of a somewhat coarser or inferior breed (if we may use the term) as there are mostly some among nearly all natives to have originally landed here on these shores and propagated themselves without admixture of a gentler or superior race it is quite natural other causes taken into account, the present race should be so low in the scale of the human races. 

Their intellectual faculties are by no means so inferior as is generally supposed  " their mind is quite capable of culture : of this I have had many decisive proofs. As on average, they learn to read English when young, as quickly as our own children and these who have had much intercourse.

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