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The lower limbs are placed clofe together, having brawny mufcular haunches, and 

 fwelling fleftiy hips ; the knees are obtufe, bend forwards, and have hollow hams be- 

 hind. The legs, which are nearly of the fame length with the thighs, are of a mufcu- 

 lar make behind, where they fwell out into what is called the calf; they are lean, and 

 free of flefh on the fhins, or lore parts, and taper downwards to the ancles, which have 

 hard hemifpherical projections on each fide, named the ankle bones, or malleolae. The 

 heel is thick, prominent, and gibbous, being longer and broader than in other ani- 

 mals, for giving a firm fupport to the body ; it joins immediately with the fo!e ol 

 the foot. The feet are oblong, convex above, and flattened on the foles, which have 

 a tranfverfe hollow about the middle. Each foot has five toes, fomewhat bent down- 

 wards, and gibbous, or fwelled, underneath at their extremities ; they are all placed 

 clofe together, the inner, or great toe, being thicker, and fomewhat fhorter, than the 

 reft ; the fecond and third are nearly of equal length ; and the fourth and fifth are 

 fhorter than the others, the lafl mentioned, or little toe, being the fliorteft and fmalleft. 

 The toe nails refemble thofe on the fingers, which are already defcribed. 



Thus man differs from the other animals in his erect pofture and naked fkin, having 

 a hairy fcalp, being furnifhed with hair on the eye-brows and eye-lafhes, and havings 

 when arrived at puberty, the pubis, breaft, arm-pits, and the chin of the males, covered 

 with hair. His brain is larger than that of any other animal, even the moft enormous; 

 he is provided with an uvula, and has organs of fpeech. His face is placed in the fame 

 parallel line with his body ; he has a projecting comprefled nofe, and a prominent chin. 

 His feet, in walking, reft on the heel. He has no tail ; and, laftly, the fpecies is di- 

 ftinguifhed, from other animals, by fome peculiarities of the female conflitution, which 

 have been already mentioned. 



OBSERVATIONS ON MAN*. 



§ 1. Physiologically. — Tecum habita ! 



Man is a frail machine, chiefly compofed of nerves and fibres interwoven with each 

 other. His moft perfect ftate is during youth ; and he is endowed with faculties more 



numerous 



* In the original thefe are contained in a note, but are here thrown into the text for greater conve- 

 nience — T. 



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