cunning. This form, however, is not unfrequently to be met with in persons the most honourable. Cunning in such is only a refined goodness.

A double chin, soft and fleshy, is, for the most part, the cause and the effect of sensuality.

Angular chins are scarcely ever seen but in persons sensible, firm, and benevolent.

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temperament.

Small chins are usually characteristic of timidity.

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Round chins, having a considerable dimple,

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As in the case of lips, so also we may notice three classes of chins :

First, those that retreat. These are cha

racteristic of effeminacy; but very often, perhaps, on that very account, are indicative of great good nature and benevolence of soul; but usually betray some weakness, moral or intellectual.

Secondly, those which, in profile, are in a perpendicular line with the under lip. These chins have a tendency to create confidence and esteem.

Fourthly, chins which project beyond the under lip. These are often found in persons of an active and energetic mind. But when this projection is very greatly lengthened, presenting the form and idea of a handle, you may reckon them as the signs of pusillanimity and avarice.

As nothing properly connected with the human face should escape the eye and observation of the physionomist, I will next proceed to notice the teeth.

THE TEETH.

Indeed, this is no mean or unimportant branch of physiognomical investigation. The Teeth

have often been the subject of physiological inquiry; but they deserve much more general attention than they have hitherto received.

Aristotle declared that strong, thick-set teeth are a sign of long life; and Valesius confirmed his observation.

The ancient physionomists-for this is no novel science-looked upon small, short teeth, as signs of a constitutional weakness; but Lavater very justly observes, that they are not, unfrequently, in adult persons, the characteristics of extraordinary strength. This I have myself very often found to be the case. They are also found, in numerous instances, in persons possessed of a great share of penetration, and considerable intellectual capacity; but when this happens, they are seldom well-formed, or very white.

Lavater says, that long teeth are a certain indication of weakness and timidity. In this respect, I am persuaded, that excellent physionomist was not very correct. At least, he speaks with too much positiveness on a point that admits of so many exceptions. I have very frequently met with persons having long, broad teeth, possessed of great energy of mind. Lavater was much nearer the truth, I apprehend, in the following observations:

Teeth that are white, even, and regularly ranged, which, on the moment when the mouth opens, seem to advance suddenly, jutting forward, and which do not always render themselves entirely visible, decidedly announce, in a man who has attained the years of maturity, an affable and a polished mind, with an honest and a good heart.

Much coldness and phlegm usually enter into the temperament of those who, when they first open the mouth, expose the mouth, expose the gums of the upper range in a very conspicuous manner.

With respect to the whiteness, evenness, and compactness of the teeth, very much depends upon habit, disease, age, &c. Little, therefore, can be said with safety on that head. Those who spend their time and money in cosmetics for the skin, may well be supposed to devote great attention to the colour of their teeth; but we must not look for any thing very great, sublime, or even useful, from such. On the other hand, those who entirely neglect their teeth, which contribute so greatly to physiognomical beauty, may be reckoned among the careless, the indolent, and the weak. He who never washes his teeth, would, if he lived apart from the respectable portion of the community, scarcely ever wash his hands or his face; and those who are thus careless of their own persons, ought to be trusted with great caution in the concerns of others. Females, who neglect their teeth, are absolutely inexcusable.

There are certain internal complaints to which we are all liable, and which require the application of medicines of such a strongly