text:  Its present height is just enough to prevent your wearing it in a carriage and such too as to give a moderate wind a good purchase upon it: the substance is such that the least exposure to wet ruins it whether of beaver or silk; a moderate blow will crack or break its form; and for the first week if you have any thing like a sensitive head or any bosses of unknown qualities protruding from your cranium you are doomed to incessant headache from hat-pinchings