Nature's revelations of character; or, physiognomy illustrated. A description of the mental, moral and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance (1879)
Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 · New York, D.M. Bennett, Liberal and Scientific Publishing House · leaf 85
i.sco, New York, andother localities situated but little above sea level, should beavoided by persons of contracted chests. We are informed by Audubon, Wilson, and other Orni-thologists, that birds wliich habitually fly high havelarger air-vessels than those which remain in lower air.The wild… … THE THORACIC FORM. 57 Likewise the bears of mountainous countries have lung-power very superior to that of the same cLass of animalsliving in the valleys. Even fish in mountain streamsand lakes are found to have larger air-vessels than thoseswimming in the sluggish waters of the lowlands. These…
Physiognomy
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