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because fire doth lick up the spirits and blood of the 

 body, so as they exhale, so that it ever maketh men 

 look pale and sallow ; but the sun, which is a gentler 

 heat, doth but draw the blood to the outward parts, 

 and rather concocteth it than soaketh it ; and there 

 fore we see that all jEthiopes are fleshy and plump, 

 and have great lips, all which betoken moisture 

 retained, and not drawn out. We see also, that the 

 Negroes are bred in countries that have plenty of 

 water, by rivers and otherwise ; for Meroe, which 

 was the metropolis of ^Ethiopia, was upon a great 

 lake ; and Congo, where the Negroes are, is full of 

 rivers. And the confines of the river Niger, where 

 the Negroes also are, are well watered : and the 

 region above Cape Verde is likewise moist, insomuch 

 as it is pestilent through moisture : but the coun 

 tries of the Abyssenes, and Barbary, and Peru, 

 where they are tawny, and olivaster, and pale, are 

 generally more sandy and dry. As for the ^thiopes, 

 as they are plump and fleshy, so, it may be, they are 

 sanguine and ruddy coloured, if their black skin 

 would suffer it to be seen. 



Experiment solitary touching motion after the instant 



of death. 



400. Some creatures do move a good while after 

 their head is off, as birds ; some a very little time, 

 as men and all beasts ; some move, though cut in 

 several pieces, as snakes, eels, worms, flies, &c. 

 First, therefore, it is certain, that the immediate 



