WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
fvveet produdions are plentiful. They have likewife the 
mofi: lovely, piercing, dark eyes ; in the captivating ufe of 
which they are by no means imfkilled. Upon the whole, 
the women of this country are very engaging ; and rendered 
more fo by their free, eafy, and unreftrained manner. Both 
fexes are extremely fond of fuffering their hair, which is 
black, to grow to a prodigious length. The ladies wear it 
plaited, and tied up in a kind of club, or large lump ; a 
mode of hair-drefling that does not feem to correfpond with 
their delicate and feminine appearance. Cuflom, however, 
reconciles us to the moft outre fafhions ; and what we 
thought unbecoming, the Portugueze confidered as highly 
ornamental. I was one day at a gentleman's houfe, to whom 
I expreffed my wonder at the prodigious quantity of hair 
worn by the ladies ; adding, that I did not conceive it pof- 
iible for it to be all of their own growth. The gentleman 
affured me that it was ; and, in order to convince me that 
it was fo, he called his wife, and untied her hair, which, 
notwithflanding it was in plaits, dragged at leaft two inches 
upon the floor as fhe walked along. I offered my fervice 
to tie it up again ; whidi was politely accepted, and con- 
£dered as a compliment by both. It has been faid that 
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