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the refl are not below the common iize; but their women, who 

 appear here again, under the humiliating and difgracing predicament 

 of drudges, are commonly fmall. They are all of a fwarthy colour -, 

 their hair is crifped, but not very woolly; * their chins 



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rounded with refpedtable beards, which they now and then tie up 

 in a knot 3 their features are ftrong and mafculine, the ear-laps are 

 cut and enlarged in the fame manner as in Eafter Ifland. I faw 



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* As fome of my readers, not having feeii a variety of nations, may think the diftinftloa 

 between crifped and woolly hair, either improper or infufficient, I mull beg leave to obferve 

 that the wooHy hair of negroes, is not only frizzled and crifped, but likewife that each hair 

 is found to be extren^.ely thin, and proceeding from a root or bulb, remarkably fmaller than 

 that obferved In other human hair; on this account it is called woolly, and its remarkable 

 thinnefs probably arlfes from a too copious perfpiration,, which carries off likewife many 

 humours, otherwife fecrcted for the exprefs nutriment and growth of the hair : where this 

 perfpiration is not fo confiderable, it can only crlfp and blacken the hair, but not to fuch a 

 degree as to render It woolly. Perhaps the caufe of this dlfFerence lies in the greater mildnefs 

 of the climate, or is founded on the way of living of fuch a people. For inftance, though 

 the natives of Taheitcc^ the Society IJles^ Blarquefas^ and the Friendly JJIeSy dwell in the 

 fame latitude with the Ne^v Ihhrides^ yet they have never w^oolly hair, becaufe they 

 frequently rub their hair and head with coco-nut oil, which hinders the too copious per- 

 fpiration ; and I ihall hereafter prove thefe fair people to be originally defccnded from a 

 fairer and lefs fw^arthy or parched race, whofe type or model is commonly prcferved in 

 their offspring. Upon the whole, a moderate heat accelerates the growth of human hair; 

 this needs no proof, as it is well known that hair grows ftronger in funimer than in winter,- 

 every body is apprifcd of the common fad, that the marks of puberty appear fooner 

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