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of the humerus with the moulder-blade, bear the proportion 

 f half a face when the arms are ftretched out. 



" The fole of the foot is the fixth part of the figure. 

 t{ The hand is the length of a face. 

 " The thumb contains a nofe. 



" The infide of the arm, from the place where the mufcle 

 difappears, which makes the breaft, (called the Pectoral Mufcle) 

 to the middle of the arm,, four nofes. 



" From the middle of the arm to the beginning of the 

 head, five nofes. 



" The longe/l toe is a nofe long. 



" The two utmoft parts of the teats, and the pit betwixt 

 the collar-bones of a woman, make an equilateral triangle. 



" For the breadth of the limbs, no precife meafures can 

 be given, becaufe the meafures themfelves are changeable, ac- 

 cording to the quality of the perfons, and according to the 

 movement of the mufcles." Du Piles. 



The meafures of the antient flatues, by Audran, appear to 

 be the mofl ufeful, as they are accompanied with the outline 

 of thofe figures, which are mofl diftinguifhed for correftnefs. 



R. 



NOTE XIX. VERSE 150. 

 But chief from her that flowing outline take. 

 The French Editor *, who republimed this Poem in the year 

 I753 (eighty-five years later than the firft edition of Du Piles) 

 remarks here, that Noel Coypel, .(called.. Coypel le Pouffin) 

 in a difcourfe which he publimed and addrefled to the French 

 Academy fays, " That all which our Author Jias delivered 

 concerning outlines (Contours} in this pailage, does not ap- 

 pear to him to convey any precife or certain rules. He adds 



that 



He calls himfdf, in the Paris Edition, intitled, " L'Ecole d'Uranie," LeSieur 

 M. D. Q^ The Abbe De Marfy's Poem, intitled, Pulura> is annexed to Du Frefnoy's, 

 in -that edition. 



