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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Again, in regard to Sir William Hamilton's assertion of the equal or superior size of the female cerebellum, we find at page 514 a table entitled Dimensions of the cerebellum and nodus encephali. In it the greatest breadth of the cerebellum in six male Europeans varies from 4 inches 3 lines to 3 inches 6 lines, being the highest and lowest measurements. But in the three female Europeans, the highest is only equal to the lowest male, namely, 3 inches 6 lines; the other two being 3 inches 5 lines and 3 inches 3 lines respectively. Here again the superior accuracy of the phrenologists is proved even by hostile testimony; and did time permit, other confirmations might be extracted from Tiedemann's pages. II. Mr. Combe's Letters from Germany; addressed to the Editor of the Phrenological Journal. (Continued from page 706. of Volume X. of the former Series.) Vienna, the 20th of July, 1837. Sir, ? I gave you an account of the state of Phrenology in Dresden, and now continue my journal. On Monday, 3d July, we arrived in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, and containing 130,000 inhabitants, The descriptions which I had received of Prague had led me to regard it as an extremely old, deserted, worn-out, priest-ridden town; but we were agreeably surprised to find in it large, wide, and elegant streets; new houses of handsome architecture and vast dimensions; good shops; and a great bustle of life and business. We had entered by the new side, and it was only oil the second day that we found out the features of antiquity and priestly sway which had rested in our memories and given in our fancies a character of ghostliness and decay to the whole town. These are confined to a small part of it, and Prague may be correctly described as a thriving, clean, pleasant, and active city. We saw ...