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of his descendants will "take after " him or her in these and other respects.

THE WEBSTER PHYSIOGNOMY.

The Webster eyebrows illustrate this subject. Those of Daniel are large, long, thick, coarse, and very heavy. So were those of Noah, his distant relative. Those of Professor Haddock, a cousin of Daniel, and those of a Webster in Philadelphia, a sixteenth cousin of Daniel, bear a stronglymarked resemblance to those of the distinguished Senator

THE HOPKINS' FAMILY LIKENESS.

Five hundred years ago, a member of a family named Hopkins, removed from the native town of this family in England, and three hundred years afterwards, one of his descendants emigrated to this country, and finally one of this branch removed to Canada, and was elected a member to its Provincial Parliament. Another Hopkins recently emigrated from England to Canada, and was also chosen a member of the same body. One of these Hopkinses had served several years before the other was chosen. The new member requested the Speaker, Col. Fitz Gibbon, my informant, to introduce him to the old member, Hopkins, which was done. On comparing notes, each Hopkins was able to trace his ancestry back to this same family estate in England, and to the same individual, and so strong was their family resemblance that Col. Fitz Gibbon expressed himself thus concerning it. "On looking at the two, their resemblance to each other was as striking as if they had been brothers. Though well acquainted with the old member, I even found it somewhat difficult to distinguish them from each other." It thus appears that the Hopkins' form of body and face had stamped its impress on these, and of course on all intermediate descendants so powerfully as to have perpetuated itself, in spite of all intermarriages, for FIVE HUNDRED YEARS.

The resemblance of twins to each other would be in point; but to multiply words on a fact so universally cognisable is unnecessary. Every close observer must often have been struck with the close physiognomical resemblance borne by 3*

children to their parents and relatives, and by descendants to their ancestors. The transfer, saving the intermingling of the likenesses of different ancestors, is almost as close to each other as though father, sons, and grandsons were daguerreotype likenesses, taken at different times, from one common original.

313. FORMS OF BODY HEREDITARY: THE HATCHES.

This principle of likeness also extends to the entire persons. Whenever any ancestor is lean and lank, more or less of his descendants will be thin and spare; but when any ancestor is plump and full in person, some of his descendants will be round favored. And when one descendant is tall and another short, or one fleshy and the other raw-boned, some of the descendants will often resemble one, and others the other, even in the same family of children. Thus a family by the name of Hatch, who resided in Cohocton, the author's native town, were nearly all very tall and slim, for the three generations with whom he was personally acquainted, and this peculiarity doubtless extended still farther backwards, and also downward, and into the other branches of this spindling family.

THE FRANKLIN AND FOLGER FAMILIES.

Both the likeness and the form of body of Franklin were peculiar easily recognised wherever seen. In form, he was large, portly, deep-chested, and round shouldered. His mother was a Folger from Nantucket, and the descendants of her brothers, now residing on Nantucket, still bear a marked resemblance both in the general structure of their bodies, and in their family likenesses to Franklin. Of this, the accompanying engraving of Walter Folger, compared with that of Franklin, the son of his grandfather's sister, affords a striking example. George Folger, of N., exhibits the same Folger likeness. William Homes, of Boston, who died 1785, bore "a striking resemblance to his uncle, Dr. Franklin." John Tappan, of Boston, brother of Arthur and Lewis, of New York, has this same Franklin likeness and structure; and his mother, Sarah Homes, was a grand-daughter of

Franklin's sister, whose mother was of course a Folger. At New London, Ct., in 1837, the author saw a grand-daughter of Franklin, whose likeness and configuration of body were closely analogous to those of her philosophical grandfather. The maiden name of Lucretia Mott, so widely known as the "Quaker preacher," was Folger, and she is from the same Folger stock from whom Franklin undoubtedly inherited his physical and mental peculiarities. Her forehead, like his, and like those of John Tappan, and Walter and George Folger, is high, broad, bold, projecting, expansive, and indented in the middle, and her face, like theirs, has that same square-cornered aspect which all Franklin's front likenesses show him to have possessed.

THE WOODBURY STATURE.

Levi Woodbury, ex-Secretary and Senator, has a peculiar form both of body and face, large, round-favored, fleshy, and especially developed at the abdomen. In 1843 a professional applicant for the author's services gave her name as Woodbury. Her likeness and personal appearance bore so close resemblance to this distinguished statesman-she being large, portly, fleshy, and similarly formed—that I inquired whether she was related to Levi Woodbury, and was answered that she was his cousin ; that she resembled her father, Levi's brother, that Levi resembled his, and of course her, GRANDFATHER, and that the Woodburys were generally known by their family resemblance to each other and to their ancestors-two brothers who settled in Beverly, Mass., seven generations back.

THE WEBSTER STATURE AND LIKENESS

In 1840, a customer entered my office whom I supposed to be, and called Webster, supposing him to be Daniel. He was the sixteenth cousin of Daniel already cited. He had the same general structure and configuration peculiar to Daniel, the same carriage, about the same slowness but power of motion, the same height and weight, color and coarseness of hair, form and color of eyes, and extraordinary vital and muscular apparatus, and the same form and expression of counte

nance.

Professor Charles B. Haddock, of Dartmouth College, is a nephew of Daniel Webster; and the two bear a close family resemblance to each other. The Websters in Maine and New Hampshire are generally distinguishable by their possessing the same Webster likeness and great size of head.

Noah Webster had two of the physiognomical marks of Daniel-the heavy eye-brows and prominent forehead-and though no relationship has existed between their ancestors for 250 years since they emigrated to this country, yet their progenitors in England were probably related.

THE DWIGHT LIKENESS AND STATURE.

SERENO E. DWIGHT, son of President Dwight, while riding on horseback among the New Hampshire mountains, overtook an old man, also on horseback, who, after eyeing him closely for a while, finally looked him full in the face, and inquired whether his name was not Dwight, and he the son of Col. D., adding, "Sixty years ago I worked for the Colonel, and you resemble him in countenance, tone of voice, the way you sit in the saddle, and in other respects so nearly as to warrant the question of relationship." Sereno replied, that Colonel D. was his GRANDFATHER, and his son Timothy, the theologian, was his father. Colonel D. was a large, well formed, finely-proportioned, noble appearing man, and so was the President, as seen in the accompanying likeness of him, and their descendants generally, as the author can testify from a personal observation of several of them.

But why multiply facts in proof or illustration of a hereditary principle so perfectly obvious? Who that compares ancestors and descendants does not see it exemplified wherever he makes observation? This is especially apparent wherever either have any strongly marked physical or physiognomical peculiarities; and such extreme cases furnish the best tests of the truth of this law of nature. Children of course derive their ever-varying forms of body and face from SOME source. Then from what but parentage? This fact before us is only the more minute confirmation of that great law which causes all mankind-all that propagates-to resemble, in general