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ssd furnish hints which promise peculiar advantage 

 to the delineator of human passions, or the objects 

 of natural history. It is a work of entirely a prac- 

 tical nature, and replete with important rules." In 

 conclusion, Dr Cogan states, that if the principles 

 advanced and illustrated, should appear to the Eng- 

 lish connoisseurs as important as they did to the au- 

 thor, and to his admirers in the Dutch Netherlands, 

 the work must be highly prized in Britain. 



Having now endeavoured to convey within our 

 limits, and in the fewest possible words, some gene- 

 ral notion of the objects and plan of this very cele- 

 brated work, we can only select from it a single point 

 on which to insist for a moment longer. It is re- 

 specting that line and angle used by the naturalist, 

 and known by the name of Camper's angle, from the 

 great attention he devoted to it, and the success with 

 which he brought it into general notice. Having 

 observed, as a general law, that there is a corre- 

 spondence between the outer table of the cranium, 

 and the brain itself, so that the size of the latter may 

 be generally inferred from the appearance of the 

 former, and having also observed from his examina- 

 tions of the heads of men and animals, that there 

 was a great diversity between the relative bearings 

 of the front part of the cranium and the jaw bones, l*e 

 denominated a line drawn along the frontal bone 

 downwards, and passing the insertion of the front 

 teeth, the facial line ; which again being met by an- 

 other line, extending from the external opening ol 



