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dropfy, with which he was attacked in his infancy,   and which  difplaced the  bones that form the cranium.     We know that thefe bones are'joined together by futures, which are foft in the firft period of life, and   harden and offify  with  age.     Such an exuberance, fo  grpat an  afflux of humour in that, which fif all the vifcera feems to require the moty exact  proportion, as well in what  relatds to the life as to the underftandingof majn, afford ftronger proof of the neceffity of a^i equilibrium between the folids and fluids^ than the exigence of the final caufes.
General Knox, whom we had met, and who accompanied us, brought us back to head quarters, through a wood, as the fhorteft way, and to fall into a road leading to his houfe, where we wifhed to pay our compliments to Mrs. Knox. We found her fettled in a little farm, where me had paffed part of the campaign ; for fhe never quits her hufband. A child of fix months, and a little girl of three years old, formed a real family for the General. As for him-felf, he is  between thirty and forty, very
fat,