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3 sudden find their hair turn grey or white, as also after a fright or disappointment. A French Officer, aged 23, on a sudden received sentence of death; the news had such an effect on him, that before morning his hair was changed to milk white.

2. Black hair shews a person very amorous, but cruel and ungenerous.

3. Hair the colour of gold, shews a treacherous person, arbitrary and proud.

4. Dark red hair has the same signification. The perspiration of a red haired person is disagreeable.

5. Chesnut-coloured hair, or dark brown, denotes a fair, just, free, and liberal person.

The Beard.

1. A thin soft beard shews a person lustful, effeminate, of a tender body, fearful and inconstant.

2. A red beard denotes the person courteous and friendly, a great flatterer, and very soon angry.

3. A dark beard is good, yet it denotes a person to be cordial, sincere, thoughtful, and bold.

4. He that hath a decent beard, handsome, and thick of hair, is good natured and reasonable.

The Chin.

1. A long chin, denotes the person angry, and importunate in the use of words.

2. A little chin shews inveteracy and malice.

3. A round and thin chin is not manly, but womanish, and signifies boldness and much pride.

4. A square chin is manly, and denotes much courage and strength of body; and such persons are commonly given to words.

5. A round chin and dimpled shews good nature, but much addicted to pleasure.

6. A lean wrinkled chin represents a cold, impotent, and malicious person.

The Eye-brows and Eye-lids.

1. A person having much, and long hair on the eye-brows, and both join across the nose, is a very simple person, but conceited in his own opinion.