1,06 LAVATER’s.i 
iron, and amber betrays the prefence of eie6frlc 
fluid. 
Infe6ts alone have fail-yards, of which we do not 
know the ufe any more than they can judge of 
our ears. 
It is by force of light that the eye difcovers fur- 
rounding objefts ; the ear liftens to them from the 
impulfe of air ; the touch feels them from their 
fubftance and refiftance ; while the nofe fmells them 
by the impreffion of volatile parts upon nerves con- 
nected with it ; the tongue takes foft or foluble 
matters by the fenfation that they niake upon the 
fibres. * 
The order and ufes of ten pair of nerves are thus explained by 
a French Poet:— 
Le plaifir des parfums nous vient de la premiere, 
La feeonde nous fait jouir de la lumiere. 
La troilieme a nos yeux donne le mouvement, 
La quatrieme inftruit desfecrets d’un amant. 
La cinquieme parcourt I’une & I’autre machoire. 
La lixieme depeint le ipepris & la gloire. 
J.,a feptieme connoit les Ions & les accords ; 
La huitieme au dedans fait jouer cent relTorts. 
La neuvieme au difcours tient notre langue prete ; 
F.t la dixiemc enfiii meut le col Sc la tete. 
For the benefit of thofe who underfland only the Englifli language, 
we attempt an imitation or paraphrafe of the foregoing verfes on the 
fubjedf difcuffed. 
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