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and tremulous consistency placed immediately 

 under the skin : it vibrated partially at every move- 

 ment, and it was evident that excoriations had been 

 formed by the numerous cicatrices which remained. 



We may notice a similar peculiarity in the African 

 variety of the sheep, (the ovis laticaudata of Ray ;) 

 and another still more exact in the females of some 

 of the most brutal of the monkey tribe, as the 

 Mandril, the Papio, fyc, which are said to be sub- 

 ject at certain periods of their lives to correspond- 

 ing enlargement to a monstrous extent. 



This poor woman stated that the enlargement in 

 question did not take place until she approached 

 womanhood, which, as she added, was the case with 

 all her countrywomen. The contrary has been said 

 by travellers, who have affirmed that this peculiarity 

 is proper to them from infancy. 



The femurs, the humerus^ and the omoplate in the 

 skeleton of this woman, presented some peculiarities 

 of conformation, which Cuvier observes to be ana- 

 logous to what is met with in the quadrumana. From 

 a single specimen, however, it is hardly safe to 

 affirm that these peculiarities are universal in the 

 Bush race. 



The skull presented the comparative characters 

 before mentioned in regard to the physiognomy, in 

 a still more striking manner: The characters of 

 the Negro and those of the Calmuck were alike 

 apparent in different parts. In the obliquity of the 

 facial angle, and enlargement of the face, she ap- 



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