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well wrought as any tanner, in the like charge, could ever 

 mollifie such leather *." 



A large size of the breasts has been observed in the 

 Morlachian women by Fortis; and is alluded to by Juve- 

 nal as a well-known circumstance, in speaking of the 

 Egyptians : — 



*' In Meroe crasso majorem infante papillam," 



The Portuguese women of modern days are said to be re- 

 markable in the same way ; while the Spaniards, in the last 

 century at least, took pains to compress these parts, in 

 order to prevent too great a luxuriance. 



To the disgrace of London, even in this pious age of so- 

 cieties for suppressing vice and distributing Bibles, a philo- 

 sophic foreigner has found in her streets a proof of the 

 effects of too early venereal excitement in enlarging the 

 breasts ; and has commemorated the fact in a classical work, 

 which must convey the scandal over the whole learned 

 world. " Contraria cura ambitum mammarum augeri posse 

 nullum dubium est ; quantum vero prseterea Venus quoque 

 prasmatura eo conferre possit memorabili sane exemplo im- 

 puberes et nondum adultae puellae mercenariae docent, quae 

 Londinum, praesertim ex vicinis maxime suburbiis conflu- 

 unt, et quaestum corpore facientes ingenti numero plateas 

 noctu pervagantur f." 



There are no essential differences in the organs of gene- 

 ration : their construction and functions are the same in the 

 various races of mankind. The Negroes, indeed, have ge- 

 nerally been celebrated for the size of a principal member 

 of this apparatus. " Nigritas mentulatiores esse vulgo 

 fertur. Respondet sane huic asserto insignis apparatus 

 genitalium ^Ethiopis, quem in supellectili mea anatomica 

 servo. Num vero constans sit haec praerogativa et nationi 

 propria nescio J." Two specimens in the College Museum 

 strongly confirm the common opinion, which is also corro- 



* Rare Adventures and painefuU Peregrinations, p. 433. 



f Blusienbach de G. //. Var. Nat. sect. iii. § GT, t I^)'d. p. 240. 



