carpenters, in coarfer and finer pieces; and fome black bits 
which are little inferior to the hone-ftone. The natives 
alfo ufe the tranfparent leafy glimmer , or Mufcovy glafs ; 
a brown leafy or martial fort; and they, fometimes, brought 
to us pieces of rock-cryftal, tolerably tranfparent. The two 
firft are, probably, found near the fpot, as they feemed to 
be in confiderable quantities ; but the latter feems to be 
brought from a greater diftance, or is very fcarce; for our 
vifiters always parted with it reluctantly. Some of the 
pieces were o<ft angular, and had the appearance of being 
formed into that fhape by art. 
The perfons of the natives are, in general, under the 
common ftature ; but not {lender in proportion, being com¬ 
monly pretty full or plump, though not mufcular. Neither 
doth the foft flefhinefs feem ever to fwell into corpulence; 
and many of the older people are rather fpare, or lean. The 
vifage of moft of them is round and full; and fometimes, 
alfo, broad, with high prominent cheeks ; and, above thefe, 
the face is frequently much depreffed, or feems fallen in 
quite acrofs between the temples; the nofe alfo flattening 
at its bafe, with pretty wide noftrils, and a rounded point. 
The forehead rather low; the eyes fmall, black, and rather 
languifhing than fparkling ; the mouth round, with large 
round thickifh lips ; the teeth tolerably equal and well fet, 
but not remarkably white. They have either no beards at 
all, which was moft commonly the cafe, or a fmall thin one 
upon the point of the chin; which does not arife from any 
natural defeCt of hair on that part, but from plucking it out 
more or lefs; for fome of them, and particularly the old 
men, have not only confiderable beards all over the chin, 
but whifkers, or muftachios; both on the upper lip, and 
running from thence toward the lower jaw obliquely 
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