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his legs and arms, being grown ftifF, refufe to per- 
form their duty. 
Other fymptoms of final decay announce a ikc’- 
leton by anticipation, while death waits in ambuih, 
impatient for his prey. 
Let us return, wdth due refpe^f, to the fair fex. 
A perfonable woman, well fliaped, is more flen- 
der, and has flighter bones, than a man ; her ftature 
is like wife fmaller, the neck longer, with the lower 
part of the bread; narrower. 
The bafe or circumference of Venus, taken in 
one point of view, is alfo broader, compared with 
the form of Apollo. Her thighs are thicker, her legs 
ftouter, her feet fmaller, her mufcles lefs vifible, and 
her limbs more elegantly turned, in addition to a fet 
of features and complexion peculiar to the beautiful 
objeG of wedded Love. 
In the next place, we come to confider the ma- 
terial difference depending on climate, with regard 
to the fize and colour of people. 
A good painter will not, we know, draw a Pata- 
gonian like a Laplander, nor make an European 
refemble an African blackamoor. He will take off 
the national difiinguifliing feature perceived in 
every country. In his pictures, the Frenchman, the 
Englifhman, and the Circaffian, muft appear as they 
really are, formed in Nature’s faireft fhape ; while 
the Calmouck and Greenlander fhould be repre- 
fented in their true light, with diminutive eyes, 
fhapelefs 
