OF PERSPIRATION. 123 



distinct from the common sweat, and from that which 

 possesses an odor resembling the odor of goats and 

 is peculiar to certain parts only. 



186. Lastly, almost every part of the corium is beset 

 with various kinds of hairs,* chiefly short and delicate, 

 more or less downy, and found nearly every where but 

 on the palpebrae, penis, the palms of the hand, and the 

 soles of the feet. In some parts, they are long and des- 

 tined for peculiar purposes ; such are the capilla- 

 mentum, the eyebrows, the eye-lashes, the vibrissae, 

 mustachios, beard, and the hair of the arm-pits and 

 pudenda. 



187. Man is, generally speaking, less hairy than most 

 other mammalia. But in this respect nations differ. 

 For, not to mention those nations who to this day care- 

 fully pluck out their beard or the hair of other parts, 

 others appear naturally destitute of hair, v. c. the 

 Tunguses and Burats ; (C) on the contrary, creditable 

 travellers assert that some inhabitants of the islands in 

 the Pacific and Indian Ocean are remarkable hairy, f 



188. Nor is there less variety in the length, flexibi- 

 lity, colour, and disposition to curl, both in each race 

 of men enumerated above (181) and in individuals. V.c. 

 The hair of the head in the Caucasian variety is rather 

 dingy or of a nut brown, inclined on one hand to yellow 

 and on the other to black; in the Mongolian and Ame- 

 rican, it is black, stifler, straight, and more sparing ; in 

 the Malay, black, soft, curling, thick, and abundant ; in 

 the Ethiopians, black and woolly : In individuals, espe- 



* Jo, Ph. WithofT, De pilo humano. Duisb. 1750. 4to. Compare the Com- 

 mtntnr. Socict. Sclent. Gntting. Vol. ii. 



lob. Blister, Verhnnrlel. der Maatsrh. te Haarlem. T. xiv. p. 332. 

 f DC Generis Human. J'arict, Nativ. p. 29, 



