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erect position of the head, the projection of the chest, 

 the walking with straight knees, and many such ac- 

 tions, which are merely the result of fashion, but 

 what nature never warranted. 



The predominant Passion. 



It has been remarked that the predominant passion 

 may generally be discovered in the countenance, be- 

 cause the muscles by which it is expressed, being 

 almost "perpetually contracted, lose their tone, and 

 never totally relax, so that the expression remains 

 when the passion is suspended. Thus an angry, dis- 

 dainful, a subtle, and a suspicious temper, are dis- 

 played in characters that are almost universally un- 

 derstood. 



The Phelieleg. 



Thomas Rawlinson, an iron-smelter and an Eng- 

 lishman, was the person who, about or prior to 

 A. D. 1728, introduced the pheliebeg, or short kilt, 

 worn in the Highlands. This fact, very little known, 

 is established in a letter from Ewan Baillie, of Obe- 

 riachan, inserted in the Edinburgh Magazine for 

 1785, and also by the Culloden Papers. 



