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hardy and defperate hunter, and not for 
the man of pleafure. «It is, befides, a 
lofs of time, which ought to be conte 
to matters of neceffity. As to the latter, 
although there are as fine rivers and 
creeks as any in the world to be met with 
in the United States, it muft be abfurd to 
fuppofe they run through every tract of 
land. Tt is true that the draughtfman 
never fails to lay down a plenty of 
fireams upon the plan of every tract of 
land fent to Europe for fale, when nature, 
perhaps, has denied it even a mill-ftream : 
but more of this under the fecond head. 
(To be continued. ) 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
YU HILST, in this learned metropo- 
lis, a corn-cutter is juftly ttyled a 
chiropedifi—a tooth- drawer an odoxtolozi/?, 
——when every apothecary deals in Thera- 
peutics and Galenicals—and the green-gro- 
cer advertifes his various botazzcals—nay, 
when the Panorama attracts all the eyes 
in the kingdom—when Mr. Walker 
boafts his Ezdopbhuficon—-and every map- 
feller his eiadouranion—one fingle word is 
{till deprived of his native etymology.— 
Phyfiognomy, though in every body’s 
mouth, is yet moft fhamefully robbed of 
its original meaning 
of it are numerous “and notorious. From 
the infignificant, if not jargon term, phiz, 
for face, is the above high-founding term 
derived, if any true inference is to be made 
from its general ufe. Mrs. Tallow, the 
ehandler’s wife, with a very red broad 
face and faucer-eyes, is reckoned by her 
neighbour, the carcafe-butcher, toe have a 
fine phixzzionimy :, Dr. G. when pocketing 
two fine furniture-volumes, is confidered 
by erudite Bidbliopolis to have a very 
learned phizxionimy. Nay, the writer of 
this article of feriows complaint, becaufe 
he never laughs at the jokes of fome mo- 
dern dramatic-writers, is faid to exhibit a 
very dull phixzionimy at the reprefenta- 
tion of certain comedies. Your com- 
plainant, Mr. Editor, further fets forth, 
that the knowledge of the inlide-man, 
fuppofed to be guefled at by his face, ge(- 
tures, attitude, &c. is expreffed in the 
Greck language by the legitimate term 
phyfiognomy, or the law of nature, made 
‘and provided, as the phrafe is, in that 
cafe. Now, that the pix alone is but an 
indifferent index whereby the mind is to 
be ferutinized, will clearly appear from 
very obvious fatanices: When I meet a 
great man in the ftreet who wifhes to avoid 
The Word Phyfiognomy.—Cantabrigiana. 
and the perverfions. 
993° 
“my eye, Ido not take the hint from his 
phiz (which is unmoved),-but from the 
erefinefs of his figure and the accelerated 
motion of his walk. When, in the cale 
of diftrefs, Lapply to a rich man for the 
loan of a trifle, {do not guels by his phiz: 
(which is all compaffion | and woe} what 
my hopes are; but when I fee him button. 
ing his coat clofe, and fhutting the pock~ 
ets of his breeches very carefully, yet lei- 
furely, I threwdiy conjecture that at pre- 
fent he is out of cafh 3 and in thefe cafes 
Iam feldom, if ever, miltaken. oe 
over, atadiftance, before you can poftibs ly 
difcover any feature in a perion’s phizx, 
do we not conceive in our-own minds, 
from the attitude of eale, ftiffnefs, &c. of 
his arms, body, and legs, what moral cha- 
racter the man poffeffes, and even, in many 
cafes, of what profeffion the franger is ? 
Now, Mr. Editor, though [ am not fo fond 
ef admitting faa long, and foreicn 
words into our language, as was a late 
esudite lexicographer, yet, hen they 
have been adopted, I with their ufe and 
xtent of meaning may be fully afcertain- 
eA and acknowledged 5; and have fo fara 
regard for the Greek language, as to vin- 
dicate it from the injuries of vernacular 
jargon. 
PHILOLOGOS. 
‘ 
CANTABRIGIANA. 
NO. CCVII.—MR. ANTHONY COLLINS. 
! | ‘HE following article belongs to the 
former Number. 
Mr. Collins was of F 
Being defigned for the bar, he afterwards 
entered of the ‘Temple ; but pofleffing a - 
fpeculative and philofophical turn of 
mind, and det Lee on purfuing Free In- 
auisy to is utmoft limits, he foon left the 
Temple for literary retirement, 
Hor. 
His Difcourfe on Free- Thinking fhews, 
that he confidered the very effence of reli- 
gion and morals to confitt in free-thinking, 
or independent, unfhackled inquiry after 
truth, as the proper fecurity againft im- 
yotture, and the only foundation for piin- 
ciple and happineis, ‘* the only crime -of 
man lying (the‘e are Collins's words), 
with refpect to opinions, in zot thinking 
Sreely.”? We 
This Difcourfe is written with great 
acutenefs ; and, at the fame time, plays 
off much banter againft the clergy, and 
was fuppofed to be levelled at Chriftianity 
itlelf. This octafioned Mr. Whitton to 
enter the.liits againit him, mounted on hs 
old 
Inter fylvas Academi quzrere verum. 
King’s Collece,— 
