Cofftpari/on between the Human Race and S-tvlne. 289 

 of the above circumnavigators*. Now, allowing this to be 

 the cafe, it is not near fuch an excefs of ftature as that ob- 

 served in many parts of America among the fwine, originally 

 carried thither from Europe ; and of thefe I fhall mention in 

 particular thofe of Cubaf, which are more than double the 

 fize of the original flock in Europe. 



II. In regard to Colour, and the' Nature of Hair. 



The natives of Guinea, Madagafcar, New Holland, New- 

 Guinea, &c. are black ; many American tribes are redtlifh 

 brown, and the Europeans are white. An equal difference 

 is obferved among fwine in different countries. In Piedmont, 

 for example, they are black. When I palled through that 

 country, during the great fair for fwine at Salenge, I did not 

 fee a fingle one of any other colour. In Bavaria, they are 

 reddifh brown 5 in Normandy, they are all white. 



Human hair is, indeed, fomewhat different from fwine's 

 bridles, yet in the prefent point of view they may be com- 

 pared with each other. Fair hair is foft, and of a filky texture ; 

 black hair is coarfer, and among feveral tribes, fuch as the 

 Abyfiinians, Negroes, and the inhabitants of New Holland, 

 it is woolly, and moft fo among the Hottentots J. In the 

 like manner, among the white fwine in Normandy, as I was 

 allured by an incomparable obferver, Sulzer of Ronneburg, 

 the hair on the whole body is longer and fofter than among 

 other fwine ; and even the briitles on the back are very little 

 different, but lie flat, and are only longer than the hair on 

 the other parts of the body. They cannot, therefore, be 

 employed by the brufh-makers. The difference between the 

 hair of the wild boar and the domeftic fwine, particularly 

 in regard to the fofter part between the ftrong briftles, is, as 

 t.s well known, (iill greater. 



" l'liilofoph. TranfacYions, vol. Ix. p. 10. 

 f F. S. Clavigero Storia Antica del Medico, vol. iv.p. 145. 

 + Spatmann fays, the hair of the Hottentots is more woolly than that 

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