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tuft of a. confiderable thicknefs, they fatten 

 fome falfe hi-: to it, and flick as many and as 

 coflly pins or bodkins in it as their circum- 

 stances will alio-; c They take a great deal 

 of pains to have .mocth and glofly hair; but 

 this is perhaps the reafon why their hair wears 

 off and becomes thin, and draggling when 

 they grow old. Both fexes let their nails grow 

 as long as poffiMe, if they do not interfere, 

 Vrith. their bufinefs. 



You fee many blind men x in the ftreets ; 

 and they are the only beggars which are to be 

 obferved. The alms which the Chinefe give 

 them, confifl of a fpoonful of rice. The moft 

 common difeafe here is that which naturally 

 proceeds f.om promifcuous luft. A grave 

 Chinefe afferted that they cure this difeafe in 

 a hundred days, per nxvoipxyUv aliernis die- 

 bus , ahernis jejwnjb. I cannot be aniwerable 

 for the truth of this account ; but fo much I 

 know, thai it is poffible to procure a fufficient 

 quantity of this food. A Chinefe would like 

 tetter to take money for his children, than to 



* Perhaps theHindnefs of the fchinefe is for the greateft 

 part the effect of their voluptuous irregularities ; there may 

 }>e alfo 01 her caui'es. Compare with this Tijjbt defebr, biliof, 

 p. 187, 180, 



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