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substance of the daguerreotype, persons whose faces are 

 freckled all over give rise to the most ludicrous results, a 

 white portrait mottled with just as many black dots as 

 the sitter had yellow ones. The eye appears beautifully : 

 the iris with sharpness, and the white dot of light upon 

 it with such strength and so much of reality and life as 

 to surprise those who have never before seen it. Many 

 are persuaded that the pencil of the painter has been 

 secretly employed to give this finishing touch. 



UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, September, 1840. 



