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11 General Description of Body (Height and Sub- 

 stance) Value 10. Massive, broad, deep, long, 

 powerfully built, on legs wide apart and squarely 

 set. Muscles sharply defined. Size a great desi- 

 deratum, if combined with quality. Height and 

 substance important if both points are proportion- 

 ately combined. 



"Skull (Value 12). Broad between the ears, 

 forehead flat, but wrinkled when attention is excited. 

 Brows (superciliary ridges) slightly raised. Muscles 

 of the temples and cheeks (temporal and masseter) 

 well developed. Arch across the skull of a rounded, 

 flattened curve, with a depression up the centre of 

 the forehead from the medium line between the 

 eyes, to half way up the sagittal suture. 



" Face or Muzzle (Value 18). Short, broad 

 under the eyes, and keeping nearly parallel in width 

 to the end of the nose ; truncated, i.e. } blunt and 

 cut off square, thus forming a right angle with the 

 upper line of the face, of great depth from the 

 point of the nose to under jaw. Under-jaw broad 

 to the end ; canine teeth healthy, powerful, and wide 

 apart ; incisors level, or the lower projecting beyond 

 the upper, but never sufficiently so as to become 

 visible when the mouth is closed. Nose broad, with 

 widely spreading nostrils when viewed from the 

 front ; flat (not pointed nor turned up) in profile. 



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