Essays on physiognomy. ... for the promotion and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; tr. by Thomas Holcroft.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- Date:
- 1806
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Essays on physiognomy. ... for the promotion and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; tr. by Thomas Holcroft. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![If exaniine tlie neiplibourin pcoplc of the loiiiT slip oflaiul 'vliicli tlie LaplanclcTi iiiliabit, we sluill Hiul tlieybave no relatioii wliatcvor witli tbat rftco,exc‘eptinü;tliatot’tlieOstiai'ksandTongiisians. Tiic Saiiiüiedos and the l>üi aiidians havc no lescni- blaiicc will) tbc llussians, nor luive the Laplanders witli the Finlanders, theGoths, Danes, or ^lü^^ve- giaiis. Tlie Cj'rcenlaiiders are alike ditfereiit tVom the savages of Canada. The latter are tall and well inadc; and though tliey diller veiy inuch from caeh other, yet tliey are still more infinitely dif- ferent froni the Laplanders. 'I'lie Ostiaeks sceiii tü be Saiiioicdes, something less ngly, and dwarf- ish, for they are small and ill l'onned. All the 'l’artars have the npper paitof the coiiti- tenanee very large and wrinkled, even in yoiitli; the nose short andgru.ss, the eyes small and sanken, the eheeks very high, the lower |)art of the faee iiarrow, the chin long and prominent, the npper jaw stinken, the teelii long and separated, the evc- brows large, covering the eyes, the eyclids thtek', the taee Ihit, their skin of an olive colour, and their hair bhiek. 0 hey are of a inirldle Statute, bat very strong and robust: have little beard, whieh grows in small tufts, like that of the Chi- Jiese; thick thighs, and short legs. The fiittle or >iogais 'j’artars liave lost a part of their uglinoss, by having intermiugied wilh the (areassians. As we [troceed eastward, into free or iiide[)endent Tartarv, the feattires of the Tar- tars beeome something less liartl, but the essential <’haiaeteristies bl the'ir raee ever reinain. The Mogul Tartars, who conqueri'd China, and who were the most polMied of ihcse nations, are, tit ]nescnt, the least ngly and illniade; 3’et have ihey, like the oihcrs, small cve.s, the faee large ■ and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22029734_0113.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
