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from art : and, like them too, is capable of 

 taking any arrangement that art can invent. 

 Add to this, the great diversity of colours, 

 from the darkest to the lightest in all their 

 gradations ; the glossy surface ; the play of 

 light and shadow which always attends va- 

 riety of form ; and then contrast all this with 

 the monotony of the black woolly hair of the 

 negro ! its colour, nearly the same in all of 

 them, and the form, without any natural 

 play or variety, and incapable of receiving 

 any from art ! There is, likewise, another 

 circumstance* of difference not to be omitted, 

 — that of motion : the poets are particularly 

 fond of describing this light, airy, playful 

 effect of hair, both in man and in animals ; 



Luduntque jubae per colla per arrnos. 

 Intonsosque agitaret Apollinis aura capillos. 



And Tasso, in some measure, makes it the 

 distinguishing mark of beauty — 



Delia piu vaga, et cara Virginella, 

 Che mai spiagasse al vento chioma d'oro. 



The European ladies, in the wantonness 

 and caprice of fashion, have sometimes 



