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lavater’s 
fliape, and with a fmooth furface, furmounted by a 
whitilh crefcent. 
The legs and limbs run up flraight, as ftrong fup- 
porters of the human frame. 
The thick parts of the thighs are round and 
plump. The knees are turned within-fide, and 
very flat, with the joints or pans hollow below. 
The legs are of the fame length as the thighs, 
more flender at the fliins, thin at the fore part, 
with thick mufcular calves, plumper behind than 
forward. 
The heels are oblong, broader than in other 
animals, jutting out with hard ancles on each fide, 
of a femicircular form. The foies of the feet are 
likewife oblong, round in the fore-part, even be- 
hind, and hollow croffwife. with a clofe row of 
five curved toes, roundilli below ; the firfi, lareeft 
and fhorteft ; the fecond and third almofi; alike ; the 
fourth and fifth diminifliing regularly ; and nails as 
on the fingers. 
Man differs from brutes in his upright and fmooth 
body, with a covered head, eye-brows, lafhes, and 
fome hair on other parts at the age of puberty. 
He is likewife diftinguifhed by his breafts, a larger 
brain than any other creature j his palate and tra- 
chean artery j his face even with other parts j the 
nofe prominent, his chin picked, and legs fupported 
by heels. Nor does he feel himfelf lefs favoured 
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