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Cmelfjj in Chimney.Sivccp'ing hy Clim'b'mg Boys. 



[Nov. 1, 



of the old mcasiiis, and the facilily of 

 the i!c-.v, aie proposed to the peojilo of 

 lliis coimtiy, they can hcsitale which to 

 ehiisc. MiSERicORS. 



London; Sept, 13. 



P.S. Tiisie can be, perhaps, no better 

 proof of the increasin!:; progress of the new 

 plan than that some of the hostile master 

 cliininey-sweepers have thoiu-ht it ne^' 

 ct'ssp.ry to have a mcetin?, End to pa«s re- 

 solutionr, for the purpose of stemming (his 

 tide of Inimanily. As to tlic assertion of. 

 impracticability, let those philanthropists 

 ivho have had their chimneys swept for tlie 

 last twelve years by the niachme be a 

 sufficient answer. 



To the Editor of the Monthhj Magazine. 



SIR, 



IT is of some importance to the pro- 

 gress of Craniolufjy occasionally to 

 compare the anticntobservRliouson (hat 

 science witl> those which are now con- 

 fided in; that, if tlicy in. any marked 

 manner disagree, a new veriiication of 

 native phenomena may be nndertakcn. 

 For tliis pnrpose, I extract, from a scarce 

 book, tlie Physiogiiomie of Richard 

 Sanders, 1653, the seventh chapter of 

 the second part, which treats of the' 

 Head and its Judgements,— p. 158. 



"Tiie learned and knowing Hippo- 

 crates, in the sivth book which he wrote 

 concerning ordinary diseases, says, that, 

 by considering the iiead of a man, it may 

 be jndged of the whole budy: the head, 

 being the most apparent of ail the parts 

 of the body, and is not covered nor 

 niafkcd; and especially tlie face, which 

 at the first sighl is seen of all, that so may 

 be judged of the temperament and ac- 

 tions of the person. 



Now, in cur science of physiognomy, 

 tlie form, proportions, and diiiiensions,. 

 of the head arc to be coi..sideied, for, by, 

 it, ami its form, we judge of the mind 

 contained therein, which is what distin-, 

 guishes us from beasts, and makes us^ 

 know the breath whieli is said to have] 

 been blown into us by the Perfection of 

 all things. That, therefore, we may 

 come to this discovery, it is llms. 



A little head is never vvithput vice,_ 

 and commonly is guilfy of little wisdom ;^ 

 but is rather full of folly, which is, 

 naughty and malicious. 



A great head doth not sio;nify any per- 

 do;i and its vicinity who adopt the new fcction of manners, Ihougii there may ho 

 T)lan. 'J Ills plan, 1 am happy to say, is, sometimes, but not often, goodness of' 

 now gnuhially extending, and must in a nature. The most perfect is the round' 

 little lime be as succcssl'ul as its best, head, which is somewhat de ressed^oii] 

 advocates can wish ; for it is not possi- both sides, after the fashion of a sphere 

 Lie to suppose, that, when the ciuclfy compassed about with its jiodiak. 



The 



tnal experiment, by my thermometer, that 

 an IS-inch rod, or bar of iron, from a de- 

 gree of heat to cold, or the reverse, will 

 vary one-tenth of an inch by expansion 

 or contraction.— ^^ hat must this be, 

 in those tremendous cmvcd iron ribs, 

 that, on the old principles of gravity, go 

 from buttress to buttress, or from pier to 

 pier, without the possibility of etfeclually 

 providing for this expansion or contrac- 

 tion? No doubt this lias been the cause 

 «f some of our former iron bridges giving 

 way. But, if this is prevented, or pro- 

 vided for, in the new principle, I would 

 by alt means recommend one of them 

 for Rochester, as, in addition to the many 

 advantages it would possess, it might 

 bIso help to afford Eume temporary re- 

 lief to the iron trade, of which it stands 

 so much in need. B. F. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



sm, 



BELIEVING that your correspon- 

 dent W. N. page b. will cheerfully 

 contribute hi? practice and v( commen- 

 dation to promote mechanical chimney- 

 sweeping, if lie i' aware of the evils 

 amending tlie old practice, and of the 

 probabilitv of a general adoption of the 

 i»cw one,— 1 present the following cala- 

 lo-'-ue of some of the distressing conse- 

 qnences— a fearful exhibition of misery 

 and crime : — 



Child stealing. 



Child sellins. . 



Torture in leachins to rhmb, by prick- 

 ing with pins, and burning straw under 



A dreadful disease, penerally fatal, call- 

 ed chimney-sweeper's cancer. 



Sticking in chimneys, which sometimes 

 endsin snftbeation. 



Suffocation by soot in tlio chimneys tliey 

 are sweeping', and by smoke tiom an adju- 

 cent chimney. 



Burning by being scnf up chimneys on 

 fire for the purpose of cx1in;;iushing. 



Burning to dcarii, in indescribable agony 

 under different circumstances. 



These evils, and others that niight be 

 stated, arc not imaginary ; the sad de- 

 tail of most of them is to be found in the 

 Beport of their proceedings recently pub- 

 lished hy the committee for supcr.scding 

 climbing bsiys, which report also con- 

 tains a list of chimney-sweepers inLon- 



