II.

LIONS.

WHAT majesty in the countenance of the lion! What power! How far from mean, insidious cunning, ensnaring ferocity!-It is ferocity of a different kind, of conscious strength and superiority. In the region above the eyes appear consideration and discretion.

2 How much more weak, insidious, and cruel, is the lioness! It may be remarked that the kingly pre-eminence of the monarch of the woods is particularly shewn in his having the most countenance.

III.

ELEPHANT, CROCODILE, AND HIPPOPOTAMUS.

THE more violent qualities of the elephant are discoverable in the number and size of his bones; his intelligence in the roundness of their form, and his docility in the massiness of his muscles; his art and discretion in the flexibility of his trunk; his retentive memory in the size and arching of his forehead, which approaches nearer to the outline of the human forehead than that of any other beast.-Yet how essentially different is it from the human forehead, in the position of the eye and mouth, since the latter generally makes nearly a right angle with the axis of the eye and the middle line of the mouth!

Let us further remark the narrow pointing of the eye, which has so much of the character of craft, in opposition to the eye of the fish; also the proportion of the mouth, and the breadth of its profile, when closed, and then determine, as accurately as may be, the angle which it will form with the corner