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equal the {lender wrifts, the delicate hands,
the flexible and taper fingers of our fair affo-
ciates ; we yield to them beauty, elegance,
grace, happy to think they become our own,
when their hearts beftow their hands.

To return now to our propofed order; the
fame caufes which inferibe the mental charac-
ters of mankind in the face, contribute to
render their figures exprefiivc of natural
dispositions, fome are fat, others lean;
fome heavy, others light? fome tall, others
fhort $ and by this diverfity we diftinguifli
one perfon from another. The manner and
air of thoie with whom we are intimate is
fo ftrongly imprefied on our minds, that we
can fcarce miftake them even in a crowd: if
there is nothing peculiarly (hiking in their
gait,, there is yet fuch a general correfpon-
dence of appearance as clearly identifies them.

I have indeed heard of brothers extremely
like each other, and I recoiled, an inftance
(which, is inferted among the French trials)
of two perfons fo precifely fimilar in features,
gaits manners, voice, height, and even in the
moles on their faces, and other parts, that
one perfonated the other and was by his re-
- laticns, his acquaintance, and even by his
wife and children admitted to the rights of the

other.