and the incorruptibility of the noble charac

ter!

CXLVII.

A GOOD, maternally governing, original woman, who in many things is capable of all she wills. The lower features have much noble simplicity; the forehead is sanguine;

the

eye sanguine-choleric, and the nose and mouth sanguine-phlegmatic.

CXLVIII.

THIS Countenance contains more than might be suspected. The forehead has clear and capacious understanding: astonishingly acute virgin perception in the nose: mild eloquent diction in the mouth and chin; distinguishing love in the religious eye. The remaining features natively cold and dry.

CXLIX.

FOREHEAD, eye, nose, and mouth, individually, are expressive of a capacious and extraordinary woman. If this forehead does not easily receive and restore with additions, if this nose does not produce something uncommon, and if this eye has not its moments of genius, then will I renounce all pretensions to physiognomy.

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CL.*

EXCEPT the smallness of the nostril, and the distance of the eyebrow from the outline of the forehead, no one can mistake the princely, the superior, the masculine firmness of this, nevertheless feminine, but fortunate, innocent, and kind countenance.

Wanting room for additional examples, we shall here conclude this volume, and proceed, in the following, with the farther consideration of feminine countenances, and with other additions proper to the text contained in this.

* The German Index refers to this plate as Catharine II. but the sovereign of all the Russias was so well known, that the Editor probably thought it would be superfluous to write her name under her portrait.