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lavater’s 
The variety of necks is remarkable through the 
whole range of creation ; and among fouT-footed 
animals this feature indicates either their force or 
weaknefs. 
The charafteriftic traits of the furniOi h 
matter of contemplation, to which it is difficult to 
do juftice ; but any novelty found in our obfervations 
upon it, muft plead, in fome meafure, for a faint de- 
feription, and fuch rules as may direct the ftudy of 
this effential fcience. 
1ft. In the firft place, a ftudent fliould afeertain 
every attitude incident to the trunk. 
2d. He fliould follow, with a curious eye, all 
thofe poftures conne6fed wdth the motions of the 
bead and four extremities. 
3d. Nor ought he lefs anxioufly to watch thofe 
moving fprings of refpiratlon, digeftion, and other 
ufes of the belly, from which the vifible ligns, re- 
traced, of contending paffions chiefly originate. 
Every expreffive fliade of difference, that is furnrffi- 
ed by a contraft of reft with anxiety, muft be traced, 
in fome degree, fo far as to form a juft idea of the 
part affefted, in its bearings relative to others. 
The well-known* Torjo^ in the Vatican at Rome, 
is a perfect model of a well proportioned figure j 
back 
* The writer of this note has fome doubts whether this mafter- 
piece of ancient fculpure has not be^n removed to Paris fince 
he 
