all must be _Clouds_--a winter of discontent--for who will envy their
_Sunshine_.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

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NOSES.

_Observations on the Organ of Scent. By William Wadd, Esq., F.L.S._


"Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum."--MARTIAL.

"I have a nose."--PROBY.


It has often struck me as a defect in our anatomical teachers, that in
describing that prominent feature of the human face, the organ of scent,
they generalize too much, and have but one term for the symmetrical arch,
arising majestically, or the tiny atom, scarcely equal to the weight of a
barnacle--a very dot of flesh! Nor is the dissimilarity between the
invisible functions of the organ, and the visible varieties of its external
structure, less worthy of remark. With some, the sense of smelling is so
dull, as not to distinguish hyacinths from assafoetida; they would even