This discovery was sufficient to ascertain the point in question: for it appeared afterwards that the Cuticle, when divided according to this discovery from the other lamina, was semi-transparent; that the cuticle of the blackest negroe was of the same transparency and colour, as that of the purest white; and hence, the true skins of both being invariably the same, that the mucosum corpus was the seat of colour.

Then the numberless prose romances which occupy the present generation of readers will, perhaps, be collected in some immense corpus, like the Byzantine historians, will be reckoned among the curiosities of literature, and will at least have the merit of making the study of antiquities easy and interesting.

Hence, the mucosum corpus being tinged in various parts by this brown coagulated fluid, and the parts so tinged appearing through the cuticle, or upper surface of the skin, arises that spotted appearance, observable in the case recited.

"THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.

Praeparat corpus talis somnus ad multas periculosas aegritudines. 1569.

Quousque corpus universum intumescat, et floridum appareat, sudoreque, &c. 3224.

[5102] "Tenta modo tangere corpus, Jam tua mellifluo membra calore fluent.