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Byron has finely described the glow of youth and 

 beauty, as affected by the passions of the soul: 



" Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth, 

 Mounting at times to a transparent glow, 

 As if her veins ran lightning." 



Tasso as well describes the contest of the rose and 

 lily on the features of the beautiful Armida : 



Dolce color de rose in quel bel volto, 

 Fra 1'ivorio si sparge, e si confonde 

 Ma nella bocca, ond esce aura amorosa 

 Sola rosseggia, e semplice la rosa. 



Thus, too, in inferior creation, the buffalo and other 

 quadrupeds are violently excited by any thing red. 

 When the male turkey is irritated, and struts about in 

 all the mimic pomp and pantomime of offended pride, 

 the caruncle of the forehead relaxes, and this, with the 

 naked parts of the head and neck, mount up from blue 

 to an intense red. 



Mr. Forbes, in his " Oriental Memoirs," adverts to 

 the marked antipathy which the chameleon expresses 

 to a black surface. When forcibly brought before a 

 black board suspended in the room, it would tremble 

 violently, and assume a black colour. This it care- 

 fully avoided, and when a black hat was presented to 

 it, it shrunk to a skeleton, and became as black as jet, 

 and an excitement in the animal analogous to terror in 

 the human species might be deemed capable of pro- 

 ducing such a change. The most singular effect of 

 terror in the human species, as far as our knowledge 

 goes, is that recorded in the " Journal de Medecine 

 pour Tan 1817." It occurred at Paris, in the Hospital 

 of the " Salpetriei e." A female, of advanced age, was 



