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coronal region small, and the base of the brain (the organs lying below F, C, D,) 

 large, they will give an increased stimulus to the animal feelings. 



The following figures will serve as additional illustrations of these measure- 

 ments. 



Fig. 1. — Gottfried. 



Fig. 2. — EUSTACHE. 



Fig. 1 represents the head of Gesche Margarethe Gottfried, who was executed 

 at Bremen in 1828, for poisining, in cold blood, during a succession of years, both 

 her parents, her three children, her first and second husbands, and about six other 

 individuals. 



The line A B commences at the organ of causality B, and passes through 

 the middle of cautiousness, 12. These points are in general sufliciently dis- 

 tinguishable on the skull, and the line can easily be traced. The convolutions 

 lying above the line A B must have been shallow and small, compared with those 

 below, which are devoted to the animal propensities. 



Fig. 2 is a sketch of the head of a Negro called Eustache, who was as much 

 distinguished for high morality and practical benevolence, as Gottfried was for 

 deficiency of these qualities. During the massacre of the whites by the Negroes 

 in St. Domingo, Eustache, while in the capacity of a slave, saved, by his address, 

 courage and devotion, the lives of his master and upwards of four hundred other 

 whites, at the daily risk of his own safety. The line A B is drawn from causality 

 B, through cautiousness, 12; and the great size of the convolutions of the moral 

 sentiments may be judged of from the space lying between that line and the top 

 of the head C. 



Both of the sketches are drawn from busts, and the convolutions are filled in 

 suppositively for the sake of illustration. The depth of the convolutions, in both 

 cuts, is greater than in nature, that the contrast may be rendered the more per- 

 ceptible. It will be kept in mind, that I am here merely teaching rules for 

 observing heads, and not proving particular facts. The spaces, however, between 

 the line A B and the top of the head, are accurately drawn to a scale. 



