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from the top of the head to the end of the chin, 

 there is a face and a third ; from the chin to 

 the jundure of the clavicles, two thirds of a 

 face ; and, therefore, from the top of the breaft 

 to the crown of the head, is twice the length 

 of the face, or the fifth of the, body ; from the 

 joining of the clavicles to the under part of the 

 paps, they reckon one face ; from this to the 

 navel is a fourth face ; and the. fifth extends 

 from the navel to the divifiori of the inferior 

 extremities, which fhould complete half the 

 length of the body. Two faces are exhaufted 

 between the tnlgh and knee, to the laft of which 

 they allow half a face, being the firft half of 

 the eighth face ; two faces are afiigned between 

 the knee and top of the foot, and from that to 

 the fole half a face, which completes the ten 

 faces, or length of the body. This diviiion has 

 been made from men of ordinary fize ; but, in 

 thofe of a higher ftature, they allow about half 

 a face additional between the paps and the com- 

 mencement of the thighs, which, in tall men, is 

 not. the middle of the body. When the arms 

 are fully ftretched in a horizontal line, the fpace 

 between the tops of the middle fingers is equal 

 to the length of the body. From the joining of 

 the collar-bone to the articulation of the fnoul- 

 der-bone with that of the arm, is one face. 

 When the arm hangs down, or is bended for- 

 ward, it is four faces in length ; two between 

 the joint of the llioulder and the elbow, and 



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