XXXIV.

A VERY expert tradesman: the countenance unspeakably decisive, to the very point of the double chin, for activity and discretion. It is really astonishing to see how many prudent, expert, experienced, I am almost tempted to say incomparable, country people we have.-The cavity that will be formed, if a line be drawn from the end of the nose to the chin, and that occasioned by the descent of the forehead to the nose, are traits that, decisively, speak practical prudence.

I shall now produce some of the stupid countenances of my native country, in which, though I can perceive, I cannot analyze, those properties which are national. I may yet venture to say that the simple good nature of the country is apparent even in these.

XXXV.

NATURAL weakness of mind, which, though it will be generally felt, will be as difficult to define as those properties which are national. The forehead not considered, which is rather too long, according to the