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fo far as to determine the relative fymmetry of his 
leading features ; — the forehead, nofe, mouth, chin, 
and particularly the form, colour, fize, depth, and 
turn of his eyes. 
In examining a vifage in a forward viev^, the firft 
confideration is, whether it be round, oval, fquare, 
triangular, or refembling, more or lefs, one of the 
following forms of inolf, if not all, human faces, 
viz. — ‘ 
In the next place, we mull compare a profile of 
the fame face with half of cither of thefe models, 
before afcertaining the perpendicular length of the 
three ordinary feftions, — the forehead, nofe, and 
chin, upwards and downwards, with their refpec- 
tive bearings, or fymmetrical proportions. 
This operation is eafily performed by an ideal 
line drawm from the deepeft point or root of the 
nofe down to the tip of the upper lip ; by which 
means their proportions are difcovered in three 
ways, — for their perpendicular form up and down, 
their fuperficial, and inward diredlion, above and 
below. 
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