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[Note in another hand:] p. 164

(Under the quite opposite emotion of great joy, or amusement, when we as long as laughter is moderate there is hardly any contraction of the orbicular muscles & corrugator, so that there is no frowning, at but when it became extreme & robust peals of loud laughter are heard uttered, with rapid & violent spasmodic expirations, tears stream down the face. I have more than once observed noticed the face of a person, just after a paroxysm of violent laughter, & I could see that the orbicular muscles & those going going to the upper lip were still partially contracted

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[Note in another hand:] p. 164

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Ch VI

age of from two to four months the crying out or wailing of children from distress of any kind is so regularly accompanied by the shedding of tears, that weeping & crying are almost synonymous terms.*(18))

which with the tear-stained cheeks, gave to the upper half of the face an expression not to be distinguished from that of a child still blubbering from grief. The fact of tears streaming down the face during violent laughter is common to all the races of mankind throughout this would, as we shall see when we come to this subject in a future chapter.)

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[Note in another hand:] Desc. of Man p. 117

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Chapt. 3

Many generations, would ultimately become hereditary is not known; but this is probable. Rengger*[(20)] in describing accounts for their the thin legs & thick arms of the Payaguas Indians by them Indians having during hundreds of years passed nearly their whole lives in canoes, with their lower extremities motionless; & other writers have come in other analogous cases to the same to a similar conclusion. According to Cranz,*(21) who lived for a long time with the Esquimaux,

But in this case, it is mental aptitude, quite as much as bodily in formation structure, which appears to be inherited. It is asserted that the hands of new born the infants of labourers are born with at birth larger hands than those of gentle folk.*(22) (a) (text) The skin in

In infants long before birth, the skin on the palms of the hands & soles sole of the foot is