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Lam of our Country^ Minute Errors and Nicf J:ies are n«t 
» taken care of by either. . 
But a difproportion of this kind, tho it may be very 
confpicuous5and prefently taken notice of as unfeemly, 
from its running counter to that manifeft proportion, 
and exquifite fymetry of parts, that appears in the cu- 
rious frame of our bodies, even to the moft inartificial 
eye. Yet if we examine it aright, we (hall find the dif- 
ference in all fuch hke cafes, never fo extraordinary as 
to make the difproportion very confiderable in itfelf, 
tho it may feem fo remarkable to the eye. 
For^ to make this point a little plainer, I find the 
circumference of a mans head of a moderate, that is, 
the moft common fize, is^ ufually about twenty two 
_ fciches round 5 and if we chance to fee one of twenty^ 
fyic ox twenty-fix; on: a nian of ordinary heigh th,which 
certainly is very rare, it. appears large and remarkable 5 
huf: ffipuld there be found a head ftill bigger, fo as to 
be twenty-eight or twenty-nine inches in Ambit, 
(which I am apt to think, for the reafons above-rnenti^ 
onedj has fcarce, if ever, happen d, unlefs where the 
proportion of the other parts of the Body wer^ fuch as 
neceffarily required it) fuch a: one, I fay, would be re- 
ally wonderful , and counted monftrous. Yet the cir- 
cumference of the Head, of which thisjarge Forehead 
- Bone was a part, fo far exceeded the larg^ of thefe 
meafures, as that it mounted to fomething^ above a 
third part more 5 for I compute its dimenfions when 
'twas intire, and covered with the Hairy-fcalp, tohave 
been about forty- four inches round, and therefore 
muft have had a body belonging to it, that boreapror 
per conformity to this its fpaciouS: circumference.: 
Nor do I apprehend fo great a ftature as this in a 
Humane Body, :ho it be indeed extraordinary, any way 
abfurd or. repugnant to the courfeof nature, but rather^ 
if duly weighed, very cpnformable. to a certain Anoma- 
lous:? 
