HAIR; 
perfons they had a particular honour. and efteem for ; who, 
in virtue of this reas were reputed a fort of fpiritual 
parents, or thers though this pra€tice ap- 
ears to have been more Fidcents 3 inafmuch as we read that 
Conitantine fent the pope the hair of his fon Heraclius, as 
a token that he defired him to be his a father. 
re and more ob- 
contrary. 
emperor Pica Foe or "wearing ig aid 
of all the other emperors of the a except Theophilus ; 
who, being bald, enjoined all his fubjeéts to fhave their 
wae the hn of at fi sat Kio oe 
exact in rec $0! ro ir fevera ings. 
Cat , his fon fhorter ; Charles the 
fone al “Under Hugh Be Eciuccind on to ap- 
fed with, and 
i 
ne 
ex ted all who let thei hair Péter Tiom- 
bard e seri matter fe einilly WEE Charles the 
Young, that he cut — his owt hls and his fucceffors, for 
fome gt Hons, wore it very fhort. eine. ‘flor of 
in 1650, wrote - exprefsh on the Whether 
: hair? And concluded for 
it be lawl for men to. Best Ling bate 
Another divine, naried® Reeves, who had 
eat he affirmative, replied to him. 
The Greeks, and after their example, ‘the Romans, wore 
en the hair in mourning for the eed Witt 
as a Grecian cultom ; 4 appears to have 
in that upon t 
colours ot “tins This is i 
lixivious water. 
This tye, with the force of the fun and air, brings the 
hair to fo & a whitenefs, that the moft experienced 
perfon may be deceived therein; there being {carce any 
way of deteéting the artifice, but by boiling and drying it, 
which leaves the hair of the colour of a dead walnut-tree Teaf 
There is alfo a method of dyeing hair with bifmuth ; which 
renders {uch white hair as borders too much upon the yel- 
low, of a bright filver colour ; a is the proof of this 
too, the bifmuth not being a ble to ft . 
air, made el eee Praciitened with the fol 
tion of filver in aqua fortis, oath it to the fun, in order 
to haften the — ce te deepen the colour, will be 
changed from red, grey, ©: ble colours, to a 
brown or deep black. The Sletten for this purpole fhould 
be fully faturated with the filver, diluted oly with Gif- 
tion of the acid, it will be proper 
fpirits of wine. The liquids commonly fold under the name 
of hair-waters, are in reality no more than folutions pe filvers 
much diluted with water 
Hair which does not curl or buckle snes = 
to it by art; ar firft boiling, and then baking: 
lowing manner : after having scr and forte i hae and 
difpofed it in parcels, according to lengths, they roll them 
eet a upon little ab inft 
ight 
up, and tie ru- 
ments, either of a oe an bene 
thick and 
hen dried, they ool: them on a fheet 
with another, and thus. fend te to the 
paitry-cook ; who making a crutt, or coffin, around them 
of common peer fets them in an oven, till the cruit is about 
three-fourths bak 
The end by hich a hair grew to the head, is called the 
head of the hair ; and the other, = “ue they begi 
to give the buckle, the point. For 
made no difference 
ancient times, as well as i ages. Amon between the ends, 2 curled and wove 
he anit Greeks, i it was. ‘eubesiaien laid = the dead them by either indifferently ; but this made aa snable t 
€ caft o the funeral pile, and - fometimes ive a fine buckle ; hair v ven ‘by the point ig a 
~ How the if right curl. — Foreigners own st obliged to ‘the 
- they cut it Facets affured. lith for this difcovery, wh as firft carried abro 
other particulars, fee Bear.” ce eter hy 2 peruke-make o phd berets J ne 
sill we I ~ 5 a8 
at vont that raf ae bre 
‘3 the fouth parts: of France, 
; afits its being w Hele Res’ 
nder ; the bignels render= 
‘curl, git 
Ban is alfo ufed and. manufadtures. ad 
e hair of be vers, hares, conies, Se. is the | = oe 
ats are 
he sal i and left ' to apa on cornand 
wip is 
