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Places, by a lefs Force of the Epifpaftic, it is clofely 
adhering to the Cutis , as the Epidermis it (elf often 
is: This membranous Expanfion is of a much thicker 
Subftance, or denfer Texture, than the fame Part in 
Whites; and from this feem to proceed the black 
Fibres, which pervade the Epidermis , and end in its 
external Surface. 
The Cutis itfelf, which lies under this black mem- 
branous Expanfion, and to which it is clofely con- 
nected, is of a white Colour in Negroes, (omewhat 
like the Skin of many brown-skinn’d white People; 
but when this black Corpus reticulare is upon it, after 
the Epidermis is feparated, they appear, when both 
connected together, of a brown Copper-Colour, 
fomewhat like the Colour of an Indian or Mol at to ; 
fome of the Colour of the white Skin below being 
tranfmitted thro’ this thin black Membrane : Which 
feems to fhew, in what manner the Colour of thefe 
Indians and Molattoes may be occafion’d, by the 
Colour of the white Membranes under their Cuticles 
appearing partly and imperfectly thro’ them, as the 
white Skin does thro’ this Corpus reticulare. 
From hence, the Formation of the Epidermis feems 
to be more eaftly (hewn, and more completely de- 
duced, than from any Preparation of it in white 
People. For the external Lamella of it manifeflly 
arifes from the Corpus reticulare , by the Interven- 
tion of the black Fibrilla , which wc have (hewn to 
pervade the inner Lamella of the Epidermis ; and 
this Corpus reticulare itfelf arifes from the lubcura- 
neous Nerves, fo nicely and accurately delineated by 
Eujtachius ; 
