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in her contour, her features and her deport- 
ment, no marks of idiotcy could be traced ; 
in his they were ftamped with the moft 
charaéteriftic evidence:—The fmall and 
mifproportioned fceull; the dark rayleds 
eyes, faring almoft from the top of the 
forehead ; the Jong prominent nolfe; the 
huge flavering mouth, and the whole Ime 
and propertions of the lower part of the 
head and face fo exc. flively tco large for 
the upper, were indications not to be over- 
Jooked. In fhort, epilepfy and imbeci- 
lity were written in fuch legible characters 
in his phyficgnomy, that every obferver of 
mature mufi iead them ag toon as he is 
feen. Nor was the concluii n, in my mind, 
lefs decifive es tothe comparative cafe, than 
as-to that which was immediately under 
confideration. “If deficiency ard derange- 
ment of the fenforial or intellectual facul- 
ty be the caule of the {peech'effnels of this 
poor man, of the fimilar’ defect in pocr 
Avgufia, they mott ~affuredly are not. 
Never were cafes more featurally difiin& : 
jn the form of her head aad face (mangled 
as the latter 1s) are all the lines and expref 
fions of undeveloped capacity ; in his, the 
total abfence of every thing from. which 
rational faculty could be prefumed. 
But a practical queftion arifes from the 
eafe under ccniideraticn :—How far is it 
ufual for idiotcy to opera‘e in. the preclu- 
fion of the faculty of fpeech? ‘That it 
soult contract the {phere of exercife of thar 
Faculty is, indeed, fufficiently obvious ; 
for fpeech can never extend beyond the 
limits of memory; of perception and idea. 
But that it theuld preclude the individual 
from learning and ufing the terms that re- 
Jate to his animal wants and cuflomary 
operations, does not, from fuch oblerva- 
tions as I have been able to make, feem 
peceffarily or generally to enfue. 
If any of your correfpondents could fur- 
nifh me, through the medium of the 
Monthly Magazine, wih any fa&s that 
might elucidate this queftion, I fhould 
feei myfelf much obliged to them :—the 
more efpecially as the afcertainment of 
this point, befides its profefiional applica- 
tions, would throw confiderable light upon 
2 very interefting enquiry ; namely, How 
Jar man is indebted for the invention and 
exercife of the faculty of [peech to the origi- 
ual fupertority of bis intelleCtual powers ? 
and how far thofe intelleual powers are 
themfelves derivable from his phyfical and 
pening faculty of exunciative utter- 
GUCE § - 
Your’s, &c. 
_ J. THELWALLy 
Kendall, 11th Fuly, 1804, na 
Query—Etymilogy of Hackney. 
~ fAugull 1 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
F the follgwing inguiry will not be 
deemed too trifling, the inferticn of it 
in your next Monthly Magazine will be 
efieemeda favour. , 
If any of your readers are acquainted 
with a remedy which is l:kely-to encou- 
rage hair to grow ona child’s head (he- 
tween two end three y:ars old) which 1s 
now tetally bald, and will be kind enough 
to communicate it through ibe channel 
of ycur Magazine, the enquirer wil] 
be paiticularly obliged. The child had 
hair, though not very. thick, till the age 
efa year and three quarters, at which 
time he was inoculated with the cow-~ 
pock ; about ‘four monihs alter inocula- 
tion, his hair gradually fell off, till he be- 
came quite bald. 
The only experiment that has been tried 
towards recovering the haig has beep, to 
have the head frequentiy fhaved and a- 
nointed with a liniment of rum and fpirits 
of turpentine. 
T.M. 
July 15, 1804- 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
CORRESPONDENT, in your laft 
month’s Magazine, requefis that 
fome of its numerous-1eaders would afford 
him information refpeéting the origin of 
the word hackney; and why the ccaches 
that ply fer hire, are fo denominated, 
Whether the follawing account may be 
deemed fatisfactery, by J.T. I know rot, 
but it may, at leaft, ferve to ftimulate 
fome other perfon to’ give a more happy 
elucidation of the origin of the term under 
con%d< ration. 
Haquenée in French, it is well known, 
fignifes a horie that ambles, or moves at 
an eafy pace: now, it appears to me, that, 
as anambling, or eafy motion in this ani- 
mal is a defideratum to all travellers, fo 
every man who had horfes to let our, 
whether for riding, or drawing in a car- 
riage, would be led to affert, that his 
hories were hachnies; in the fame manner, 
as every ene who deals in beer, from 
whatever brewery itmay be precufed, and 
however much’ it may adulterated, ‘is 
ready to afarm,-on all occafions, that it is 
Whitebread’s or Meux’s Entire. - 
In the progrefs of time, it muft be obvi- 
ous, that, by an eafy tranfizion, the word 
in cur vernacular tongue might come to 
fignify horfes hacknied, or occafionally 
hired Thus we have hackney-coaches, - 
hackney-writets, -&c. &c. - Others, how- 
ever, I am aware, derive the word in 
piss P if guefiion 
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