with the means of furthering his object, they found it easy to introduce the subject, as it were incidentally, whilst handling a part which those philosophers have advanced to such eminent celebrity. In these conversations, (which all persons are well disposed to encourage with their barber or hair-dresser,) the votaries of the Cranion and Phren readily and unreservedly discovered themselves; and were easily drawn out into copious discussion and argument, by a skilful opposition occasionally thrown in by the operator. So that Dr. Hirnschädel, who appeared to take no concern in the question, was the better able to make and to digest his remarks.

By means of his friend at Lincoln's Inn, he further obtained an introduction to the Royal College of Surgeons. Here, by his manners and the superior skill in his own faculty which he displayed, added to the circumstance of his being a foreigner recently arrived in London, he

presently established for himself so good a ground, that, by the friendships he formed in that noble Institution, the opportunities of prosecuting his researches on the crania of England multiplied to the utmost extent of his wishes or his time; to promote which, he felt but little repugnance, under his present perfect incognito, to submit to the occasional imputation of being a disciple of Gall and Spurzheim.

The portion of time which he was able to allot to England being now nearly exhausted, he entered his observations at considerable length in his Journal; and compressed the general result in his Pocket-book, in the abbreviated, form which he had adopted for the benefit of immediate reference.

He observed universally in the AngloSaxon crania, a very remarkable development of the orgg. supe-ratio, libe-ratio, bellige-ratio, perseve-ratio, celeb-ratio, administ-ratio, conside-ratio, and vene-ratio;

but he lamented to find, experimentally, that the first of these, the org. supe-ratio, was very unequally balanced by the moderatio, and that it very strongly attracted to itself the org. exagge-ratio. He had suspected this, from the observations he had so frequently heard in Germany; and he was much grieved, to find the fact fully confirmed. He was grieved, because he felt a personal concern in whatever affected the interests and name of the Anglo-Saxons; and he found, that this undue equality between the supe-ratio and exagge-ratio, and inferiority of the mode-ratio, was the cause of much offence taken by other nations against, and consequently, of the loss of many advantages to, the AngloSaxons, in their frequent migrations on the Continent. He also thought, that it was exceedingly unbecoming a nation descended from a generation of Saxon cadets, who had left their native country to seek their fortune and their bread. And, although they had grown in wealth and power to a

point of eminence which never entered into the prospect of their migratory ancestors, and, in his partial opinion, stood foremost amongst all the nations out of Saxony Proper; yet, they should have had respect always to the circumstances of their origin, and not have encouraged the germination of associations in their encephali, productive necessarily of attractions and co-enlargements of the ratios and their nidi, which he himself, though the Head of an Elder Branch, should be ashamed to encourage. He trusted, that when his great work should have diffused his science and his art throughout Europe, to this "ultima Thule," his name, together with the knowledge that he had sojourned incognito amongst them, and had closely observed them, would have influence with the whole Anglo-Saxon people, to fix a compress upon their exagge-ratio, and a vacuum upon their mode-ratio.

He observed likewise, in extraordinary activity among them, and in universal

and equal development, that very ratio which he had taken so much pains to suppress in his own cranion, viz. the org. admi-ratio; which phenomenon afforded him endless amusement, and the effects of which he thought could not be better described than in the words of their own Shakspeare: whose representation, though written two hundred years ago, is curiously characteristic of them at the present day." A strange fish! Were I in Eng"land (as I once was), and had but this "fish painted, not a holiday-fool there "but would give a piece of silver: there "would this monster make a man. Any

strange beast there makes a man: when "they will not give a doit to relieve a "lame beggar, they will lay out ten to

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see a dead Indian."* He strongly recommended a moderate compress upon this

ratio also.

With respect to the language of this

Tempest, Act ii., Scene 2.