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and if the energy of the faculties is in proportion to the size and 
development of the organs, then the external form and size of the 
cranium will indicate the powers and affections within, due allow- 
ance being made for the varying depth of the frontal sinus, and 
for some other peculiarities of idiosyncrasy or of disease, affecting 
the thickness and development of the bone in different individ- 
uals. 
This then is the vexed question—is there such a correspon- 
dence—are the views of phrenologists sustained by facts, and do 
the prevailing powers, affections and propensities of individuals, 
correspond with the cranial developments, modified by the tem- 
peraments, by health and other circumstances? It is obvious that 
these questions can be answered only by persons of large observa- 
tion, of great mental acumen and extensive and accurate knowl- 
edge of the structure, physiology, and history of man. The in- 
vestigation includes, in the widest sense, all that belongs to him, 
and therefore few persons are qualified to make such responsible 
decisions. They have been made, however, in so many instan- 
ces with success, as to command confidence and to conciliate — 
favor... 
It was seriously proposed to the British govetulinceit in 1836, 
and the application was sustained by many professional men of 
high authority, that the numerous convicts who are annually 
transported to Australasia and Van Dieman’s land, should be ex- 
amined, phrenologically, that the dangerous criminals may be sep- 
arated from the rest, allotted to a more rigorous supervision, and 
controlled by walisias force, both on the passage and in the colo- 
nies ;—that on landing, they should be stationed at labor under 
guard, on the roads and other public works, while the milder in- 
dividuals, being placed out as servants, might become safe and 
useful inmates in families, or laborers on the farms, and thus 
there might be a better prospect of their acquiring the confidence 
of their employers and of recovering their own self-respect. 
In New Holland, this course is very important, as appears par- 
ticularly from the able report on the exploration of a large portion 
of that immense country by Major T. L. Mitchell,* who under the 
authority of government, and as surveyor general, made three ar- 
* Fis report was published in London in 1838, in two beautiful 8vos, with nu- 
merous illustrations by plates and maps, a very valuable work, which we have 
read with great interest. 
