Note 035 Shaw, p. 59. Yet since Procopius (1. ii. c. I3 [tom. i. p. 466, ed. Bonn)) speaks of a people of Mount Atlas, as already distinguished by white bodies and yellow hair, the phenomenon (which is likewise visible in the Andes of Peru) Buffon, tom. iii. p. 504) may naturally be ascribed to the elevation of the ground and the temperature of the air.]

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