By actual admeasurement of a great number of Siamese, it is ascertained that the average height does not exceed five feet and four inches. Their skin is darker then the Chinese, yet they are several shades lighter than the Malays; their complexion is rather a dark shade of yellow or a yellowish brown. All classes delight in heightening it, by using turmeric. A light yellow is considered to be the “ne plus ultra” of all colours and all shades. This taste is derived, probably, from the numerous Chinese who reside there. Owing to their frequent bathing, and daily using a clean waist-cloth, their skin is remarkably smooth, soft, and shining. They are inclined to obesity, have large lower limbs and stout long arms; yet they are by no means a strong or robust people. The _face_ is broad and flat--the cheek-bones round, but prominent--the _nose_ rather small, round at the point, and rather hollow at the bridge--they have large mouths and rather thick lips--the lower jaw is long and full at the extremities, and the countenance apparently square--the eyes are small and black, the white tinged with a yellow cast--the forehead, although broad in a lateral direction, is generally low--the beard is very scanty. The diameter of the head is remarkably short from the front, backward; the top is unusually flat, and from the crown to the nape of the neck, (in a large proportion of them,) is nearly in a straight line. The hair is always black, thick, coarse, and lank. [Sidenote: DIVISION OF TIME.] The Siamese week consists of seven days; the months, alternately, of twenty-nine and thirty days; and twelve months, or three hundred and fifty-four days, make a year. The year being solar, an intercalary month of thirty days is added every third year after the eighth month. The month is divided into a dark and a bright half, as the moon is upon the increase or the wane. The Siamese new year corresponds with that of the Chinese, which commences _after_ the last half of the month of January, or the sun’s entrance into Aquarius. It is very certain, that in forming their calendar, they depend upon that constructed at Peking. There is also a greater division of time, consisting of twelve years, each year taking the name of some animal, thus:-- _Siamese._ _English._ First year Chuat Rat. Second „ Chabu Ox or cow. Third „ Khān Tiger. Fourth „ Thō Hare. Fifth „ Marong Dragon, or great snake. Sixth „ Maseng Snake, or lesser serpent. Seventh „ Ma-mia Horse. Eighth „ Ma-mee Goat. Ninth „ Wock, or Vock Monkey, or ape. Tenth „ Ray-ka, or Raka Cock, or fowl. Eleventh „ Chō, or Chō-Chō Dog. Twelfth „ Khan, or Kun Pig, or hog.