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was rendered white by difeafe, and which reco- 

 vered its natural colour after their health was 

 reftored. It is alledged by Ariftotle, that no 

 man becomes bald before having intercourfe 

 with women, except fuch as have been bald 

 from their birth. The ancient writers upbraid 

 the inhabitants of the iflands of the Archipelago 

 with the epithet bald-heads ; and aflert, that thcfe 

 iflanders are all brought- into the world with this 

 defeat *. 



The nofe is the moft prominent feature in the 

 face. But, as it has very little motion, even in 

 the mod violent paffions, it contributes more to 

 the beauty than to the expreffion of the coun- 

 tenance ; and, unlefs it be deformed, or greatly 

 difproportioned, it is lefs attended to than thofe 

 features which are capable of motion, as the 

 mouth and the eyes. The form of the nofe, and 

 its remarkable prominency, Are peculiar to the 

 human fpecies. Moft animals have noftrils fe- 

 parated by a partition ; but none of them have 

 an elevated and advanced nofe. Even the apes 

 may be faid to have noftrils only ; the nofe of 

 an ape has the fame pofition. as that of a man ; 

 but it is fo Ihort and Hat, that it can hardly be 

 regarded as funilar.-- By this organ, men, and 

 moft animals, breathe, and fmell odoriferous bo- 

 dies. Birds have no cartilaginous noftrils ; they 

 have only iwo holes or pipes for the purpofes of 

 refpiration and fmelling. 



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 * ^Sce Dapper's Voyage, p. 354. and Plln. edit. Plardouiu, 

 p. 541. 



