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four broad, black lines across each cheek; a low forehead, 

 a large, broad chin; a clumsy hook nose, a tawny hide, and 

 breasts hanging down to the belt." Pallas, who visited the 

 northern parts of the Chinese empire, says "those women 

 are preferred who have the Mandscbu form; that is to say, 

 a broad face, high cheek-bones, very broad noses, and enor- 

 mous ears;"" and Vogt remarks that the obliquity of the 

 eye, which is proper to the Chinese and Japanese, is exag- 

 gerated in their pictures for the purpose, as it "seems, of 

 exhibiting its beauty, as contrasted with the eye of the red- 

 haired barbarians." It is well known, as Hue repeatedly 

 remarks, that the Chinese of the interior think Europeans 

 hideous, with their white skins and prominent noses. The 

 nose is far from being too prominent, according to our ideas, 

 in the natives of Ceylon; yet "the Chinese in the seventh 

 century, accustomed to the flat features of the Mongol 

 races, were surprised at the prominent noses of the Cinga- 

 lese; and Thsang described them as having 'the beak of 

 a bird, with the body of a man.' " 



Finlayson, after minutely describing the people of Cochin 

 China, says that their rounded heads and faces are their chief 

 characteristics; and, he adds, "the roundness of the whole 

 countenance is more striking in the women, who are reck- 

 oned beautiful in proportion as they display this form of 

 face." The Siamese have small noses with divergent nos- 

 trils, a wide mouth, rather thick lips, a remarkably large 

 face, with very high and broad cheek-bones. It is, there- 

 fore, not wonderful that "beauty, according to our notion, 

 is a stranger to them. Yet they consider their own females 

 to be much more beautiful than those of Europe," " 



It is well known that with many Hottentot women the 

 posterior part of the body projects in a wonderful manner; 



" Quoted by Priohard, "Phys. Hist, of Mankind," 3d ed. vol. iv., 1844, 

 p. 519; Vogt, "Lectures on Man," Eng. trans., p. 129. On the opinion of the 

 Chinese on the Cingalese, E. Tennent, "Ceylon," 1859, vol. ii. p. 107. 



'8 Priohard, as taken from Crawfurd and Finlayson, "Phya. Hist, of Man- 

 kind," vol. iv. pp. 534, 536. 



