to the nose in one continued right line. But can any person, having a sense of truth and nature, suppose this natural and true? I will never more pronounce such words if any such living profile can be found; or, were it possible to find such, if the person who possessed it were not most blockishly stupid. This countenance is, in fact, merely imaginary, and only betokening the vapid and unimpassioned countenance of a maiden. The eye is as perfect marble as the eyebrow, and the whole profile. The cavity between the under lip and the chin, with the arching of the chin itself, notwithstanding apparent beauty, are either stone or, at least, extremely inanimate.

LVIII.

DEPRAVED is that taste which can call this graceful, and therefore it must be far from majestic. I should neither wish a wife, mother, sister, friend, relation, or goddess, to possess a countenance so cold, insipid, affected, stony, unimpassioned, or so perfectly a statue. The former may probably deceive by an appearance of modesty, but he alone who may be deceived by the most vapid and excessive affectation can be imposed upon by the present.-See what has been

before observed on this subject, page 34.

A GIRL between six and seven years of age, who was taken from town to town as a show, and who was spotted with hair like a deer, and particularly remarkable for the spongy excrescences on her back, which were also thinly overgrown with deer-coloured hair. Her mother, during pregnancy, had quarrelled with a neighbour concerning a stag. The engraving is an exact representation of the girl.-But I am here on the brink of a precipice, and dare not risk another step.

Certain it is that the excrescences were there, though I acknowledge I could not discover any likeness in them to a stag. I know not whether we ought to credit the assertion of the father, that there was a resemblance to the stag when flayed; I can only say that the colour and growth of the hair were like that of a stag. The hair, also, of the forehead, arms, and legs differed from