m a Boy six years of age. 29 



as 110° or 114% while in some of an opposite nature, it has 



been found as low as 90° to 99°. In J M the 



basi-frontal angle is 90°. 



To complete this class of observations, we wish it were in 

 our power to add a phrenological cast of this boy's head. But 

 for this task we confess ourselves unfit, not having had the 

 advantage to have our tact improved under the tuition of a 

 master, and having been generally unfortunate in our phre- 

 nological observations on the heads of our acquaintances. How- 

 ever, with a phrenological head before us to compare with the 

 head of the subject in question, we venture to say, that the de- 

 velopement of the cerebral organs as a whole is in pretty just 

 proportion to that of the body ; and that Nos. 2, 8, or 16, (we 

 are uncertain which) 13, 18, 19, and 30, are the most promi- 

 nent bumps in J M 's head. 



Having stated the principal organic developements of this 

 extraordinary boy, we come now to what, in a philosophical 

 point of view, is the most interesting part of the subject, namely 

 to inquire, whether or how far, these are accompanied by cor- 

 responding functional developements. On this head, we have 

 endeavoured to collect every possible information — by our own 

 personal observations — by reference to the teacher under whose 

 tuition he has been for upwards of three months — by interro- 

 gating his grandmother — and by application to the neighbours 

 who have seen him almost daily, from the time he began to 

 walk. The results of these inquiries are, 



\st. He has enjoyed almost uninterrupted good health from 

 the time of his birth up to the present day. He sleeps soundly 

 about nine hours in the twenty-four in summer, and eleven or 

 twelve hours in winter. His natural functions are quite regular. 



Sc?, He began to walk at or before the age of nine months. 

 His strength is extraordinary for his age, though not dispro- 

 portionate to his muscularity. I saw him lately lift from the 

 ground ah anvil, weighing 146 pounds avoirdupois. A year 

 ago, if not earlier, he could carry two stoups full of water for a 

 considerable distance. He runs swiftly, though awkwardly. 

 Though conscious, and even boastful of his strength, he shows 

 no disposition to quarrel with or hurt children of the same age ; 



