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R inspection but for the other purposes of observation to which it has
been applied by the ingenious inventor. He has measured in all about
5000 adults, registering in a book the measurement of each, with the
names written by themselves. Among the autographs, we find that of Sir
David Wilkie in the neighbourhood of the names of half a dozen American
Indians. Here would be a new branch of inquiry for those who are
addicted to the study of character through the handwriting. With such
abundant materials before them, they would doubtless be able to
determine the height and general proportions of their unseen
correspondents. In the article of height, many men correspond to the
minutest portion of an inch; but in the other proportions of the figure,
it would seem that no two human beings are alike. So great is the
disparity in persons of the same height, that the trunk of an individual
of five feet and a half, is occasionally found to be as long as that of
a man of six feet. In fact, Mr Macdonald, in an early period of his
measurements, was so confounded by the difference in the proportions,
that he at once came to the conclusion, that our population is made up
of mixed tribes of mankind. In the midst of all this diversity, the
question was, What were the proper proportions? or, in other words, What
proportions constituted a handsome figure? and here our vestiarian
philosopher was for a long time at a loss. At length, however, he took
300 measurements, without selection, including the length of the trunk,
of the head and neck, and of