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Show A PICTURE OF MAHOMET. ' The following is a pen portrait of thd famous fouuder of Mahomedanism: Slightly abovo tho middle size, his figure, though square, was handsome and commanding, tho chest "broad and openj the bones and framework largo, thd joints well knit together. His neck'was long and finely moulded. Tho head;, unusually largo, gave Bpaco for a broad and uoble brow- Tho hair, thick, jet black and slightly curling, fell "down over his ears; tho pyebrows wore arched and jointed; tho countenance counte-nance thin, but ruddy; his largo oyes, intensely Jblack, and, piercing, rccoived additional luster from their long, dark oydlaslics; tho noso was high and slightly aquiline, but fine and at tho end attenuated, the teeth, were far apart; a long, black, pushy heard, reaching to thoHi'east, added manliness nnd presence; pres-ence; his expression was ponsivo and; contemplative; tho face beamed with intelligence, though something of the sensuous might also ho there discerned. Tho skin of his body was clear and soft; tho only hair that met thp oyo was a fine thin line which ran down from thp neck towards the navel- H is broad back loaned slightly forward as ho walked, and lus stop was hasty, yet sharp and decided, like that of one rapidly descending a declivity. There J was something unsettled in his blood- j shot ove, which refused to rest upon j its object. When ho turned towards , you, it was never partially, but with tho wholo body. |
