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Hair of some shades of this color is sometimes called " auburne," and at oilier times 

 " chestnut." The black hair of the mound and mummy American Indians fades to brown. 



OF RED HAIR. Smith, (in Nat Hist, of the Human Species, p. 288, iii note,) says 

 that "red hair belongs exclusively to Northern Asia and Europe. This color is not much 

 esteemed, and the number of persons belonging to the oval-haired species who have it is 

 probably less than that of any other color. 



Josephus tells us that the first man, Adam, was so called because he was made of red 

 earth. It is quite as rational a conclusion that it was because he had red hair. Esau, we 

 are told, was red all over, like a hairy garment, and it is probable that he was red haired. 

 The ancient Germans were celebrated for their red hair and blue eyes. Bichat says that 

 the dislike to red hair is not only that it generally accompanies an unhappy temperament, 

 but because the only humor which it exsudes is fetid. 



OF YELLOW HAIR. The word yellow is derived from the Belgian " gheleuwe," where 

 it means the color of gold. When yellow hair is very light it is called blonde or flaxen. 

 An ancient painting found at Thebes, represents the shepherds or Hycksohos as having 

 fair hair and blue eyes. 



The Celts, Ancient Saxons, Danes, Normans, Caledonians, and Gauls, had yellow and 

 flaxen hair. The ancient Irish had fair hair ; so had the Scots of king Malcolm's time. 

 The prevailing color of the hair of the Northern Russians is very fair. Penqueville 

 speaks of the flaxen hair of the Spartan females, and of the blonde men. Blonde hair is 

 generally (in adults) emblematic of feebleness and luxury. 



OF WHITE HAIR. There are two kinds of pile that is called " white," viz : that which 

 has a white coloring matter, and that which is colorless. 



To the first of the above varieties belongs the pile of the Albinos, for 1'Heretier analysed 

 this pile, and found in it two kinds of fat, (as he calls it,) one liquid and destitute of color, 

 and the other solid and white, like strarine. The colorless pile is what is improperly 

 called grey. 



OF ALBINO PILE. We have, in our cabinet, two varieties of the pile of the Albino; 

 one of the oval-haired species, which is white with a very slight tinge of yellow; the other 

 of the eccentrically elliptical species, which is dirty-white. 



The word " Albino" was originally applied to some individuals found upon the coast of 

 Africa, who, though descendants of negroes, are said to have had a pale, pinkey, and 

 unnatural tint of skin, soft white pile, rose-colored iris and red pupil.* It is now extended 



* " Albino." Negro blane, Homme extremement blanc, ne do parents noir. (Roquettc Diet. Portugais et Francais.) 



"Albino." A term applied to white people begotten by a white man and a negress or mulatrcss. (Spanish and English 

 Dictionary.) 



" Albinos." Non donne par les Portugais a des homines qui au caractero de figure do negro joignent une blancheur 

 blasarde et hidieuse. (French Dictionary of the Academy, 1814.) 



" Albino." Na adj. El quo dc padres ncgros 6 de casta do ellos nace miiy bianco y rubio. Ex nigra stirpe albus homo. 

 Animal de pela bianco sobrc piel rojiza 6 blanca. Albincus. Especic de houibres de carnes y pelo enterimcnte blancos, y 

 de vista muy dobil albicolor. (Diet of the Spanish Acad.) 



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