[Footnote 35: 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.]