354 Notice refpceling the Manners and Halits 



this effect of grace, it is requifite that the hand ibould not 

 prefent the fame view as the chert, and that the hand and 

 arm fhould not come on a line, but that each mould contrail 

 the other by an oppqtiog turn. For examples, fee the draw- 

 ings (Plate VI. and Vlf.) 



Of the feet, our knowledge of beautiful form can only be 

 acquired through the medium of the antique, or fine pictures, 

 being now deformed by the ufe of fhoes. Suffice it to ob- 

 fcrve, the three foremoft toes ought to be the longeft ; the 

 fmall ones clofe, and turning out ; and the great one a little 

 feparated, more or lefs in proportion to the action of the foot. 



Beauty appears to delight in the irregular or pi&urefque, 

 while the grand will ever be accompanied with the regular 

 and fimple. 



JLVTII. Notice refbscjing the Manners and Habits common to 

 the Shark and Pilot- Fi/h. By C. GEOFFROY, ProjeJJot 

 in the Mufteum of Natural Hi/lory*. 



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T has been aflferted that the marks have fubject to their 

 empire a very fmall fiih of the fpecies of the gadus ; that the 

 latter precedes his mailer during his voyages, points out to 

 him thofe places of the iea moil abundant in fifh, difcovers 

 to him the traces of the prey he is fondeft of; and that, out 

 of gratitude for fuch fignal ferviccs, the (hark, notwithstand- 

 ing his voracity, lives in good intelligence with a companion 

 fo ufeful to him, Naturalifts, always on their guard againft 

 the exaggerations of travellers, and not being able to con- 

 ceive the motives of fuch an affociation, have doubted the 

 truth of tliefe facls. It will, however, be fcen that they were 

 wrong : the obfervations even which I have been able to make 

 are accompanied with circumftances which perhaps never oc- 

 curred with fo many details to any one but myfelf. 



In the month of May 1798 I was on board the Alcefte 

 frigate between cape Bon and the ifland of Malta. The fea 

 was tranquil, and the paflengers were much fatigued with the 

 long duration of the calm, when their attention was attracted 

 by a mark which they faw advancing towards the veflel. It 

 Was preceded by its pilots, which kept at a pretty regular 

 diftance from each other, and from the mark. The two pilots 

 directed their courfe towards the poop of the veflel, infpefted 

 it twice from one end to the other, and, after having fatisfied 

 themfclves that there was nothing which they could turn to 



* From the Bulletin de$ Sciences* 



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