LOOK ING-GLASS. 
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thickening behind, correfponding above, and for- 
ward, with the bafe of the lower jaw, and running 
below upon a line with the fhoulder-blade, the 
hinges, and thofe receffes where the power of fneez- 
ing is depofited. 
In the hind and upper part it is connedled with 
the temple ; behind and below it is blended with 
the top of the fpine and flioulders, proje£ling, with 
varied motions, in the fliape of what is commonly 
called Adam’s apple, or the larynx. As this pro- 
jection follows all the figns made by the human 
voice, it claims the particular attention of (Indents ; 
indeed, although the features of this part (the neck) 
are very exprelfive, they have been hitherto but lit- 
tle known. 
Lavater acknowledges that it was the firft branch 
of his favourite ftudies, and had he not been ftruc^ 
with fo fignificant an objeCt of admiration, the 
world would not have been indebted to him for 
a line upon Phyfiognomy. 
What expreffion there is in hiff or eafy necks, 
whofe varied poftures feem adapted to our faculties ! 
— for the human mind either cringes, advances, or 
flirinks back. 
A well-lhaped neck infallibly denotes a fleady 
and refolute cbaraCler ; but natural wens generally 
accompany ignorance and ftupidity, although they 
proceed partly from the quality of the water, as in 
Switzerland. 
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