NATURAL HISTORY. 91 



The human breast is outwardly formed in a very 

 different manner from that of other animals. It is 

 larger in proportion to the size of the body ', and none 

 but man, and such animals as make use of their fore 

 feet as hands, such as monkeys, bats, and squirrels, are 

 found to have those bones called clavicles, or, as we 

 usually term them, collar-l ones. The breasts in 

 women are larger than in men ; however, they seem 

 formed in the same manner ; and, sometimes, milk is 

 found in the breasts of men, as well as in those of wo- 

 men. Bird?, and all other oviparous animals, have no 

 teats ; but viviparous fishes, as the whale and the dol- 

 phin, have both teats and milk. 



There is little known exactly with regard to the 

 proportion of the human figure ; and the beauty of the 

 best statues is better conceived by observation than by 

 measurement. Some who have studied after the an- 

 cient masters, divide the body into ten times the length 

 of the face, and others into eight. They tell us, that 

 there is a similitude of proportion in different parts of 

 the body : thus, that the hand is the length of the 

 face ; that the thumb is the length of the nose ; 

 that the space between the eyes is the breadth of the 

 eye ; that the breadth of the thickest part of the thigh 

 is double that of the thickest part of the leg, and treble 

 the thinnest, &c. 



The strength of man is very considerable when ma- 

 tured by practice. We are assured that the porters of 

 Constantinople carry burthens nine hundred pounds 

 weight. And M. Desaguliers mentions a man in an 

 upright posture, who, by distributing a certain number 

 of weights, in such a manner that every part of his bo- 

 dy bore its share, was able to support a weight of two 

 thousand pounds. 



