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which tend to render their deformities lefs con- 

 fpicuous. Women never think of paint, till the 

 natural bloom of their cheeks is faded. Paint- 

 ing, however, is a very general cuftom. The 

 mode of whitening the hair * with powder, and 

 curling it, is not fo univerfal ; but it feems to 

 have been intended for the fame purpofe, to 

 make the colours and features of the counte- 

 nance appear with greater advantage. 



But, leaving external ornaments, and the dra- 

 pery of the picture, let us return to the figure 

 itfelf. The head of man is differently conftruc- 

 ted, both internally and externally, from that of 

 ■any other animal. The head of the monkey 

 makes the neareit approacli ; its brain, however, 

 is proportionally lels; and there are other dif- 

 ferences, to be afterwards pointed out. The 

 bodies of almoft all quadrupeds are entirely co- 

 vered with hair. In man, the head alone has 

 this ornament before the age of puberty, and it 

 is more amply furnifhed with hair than the head 

 of any other animal. The monkey refembles 

 man very much in his ears, nofe, and teeth. 



Among animals, there is a great diverfity in 

 the fize, pofition, and number of their teeth. 

 Some are furniihed with teeth in both jaws j 

 others have them in the under-jaw only; io 

 fome they are widely feparated from each other; 



and 



* The Hivnges of New Guinea powder their heads and 

 beards with chalk. See Recueil des Voyages, &c. torn. 4. 

 P' 637. 



