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black arm smelt more strongly than the white. 

 I made the experiment immediately after him, 

 and thought so too, But on repeating it several 

 times with more attention, I could perceive no 

 difference. It seems to me, indeed, from a 

 similar experiment made on the arm of a dark 

 negro, whose appearance did not lead me to 

 suppose, that he had been very careful with 

 respect to the cleanliness of his person, either 

 that all negroes do not possess a strong smell, 

 or that this does not proceed from all parts of 

 their skin, since I could perceive no difference 

 between the odour of his arm, and that of the 

 white arm of West. 



. On the black fore-arm are about a dozen small 

 hard substances, the largest of which are of the 

 size of a common pea. Some of them are very 

 black ; others are less black, and one or two 

 are of a reddish black colour. I thought, at 

 first, that they consisted of thickened cuticle, 

 but I found afterwards, that they readily bled 

 upon being punctured with a needle. 



The upper and outer part of the black arm 

 has a number of very black hairs growing from 

 it, some of which are three quarters of an inch 

 long. The inner part of the arm, which is 

 equally black, is free from hairs. 



The black arm is as firm to the touch, and as 

 fleshy as the white j and according to the young 



