PHYSICAL ann LITERARY. 457, 
as it is inconvenient, by fhuffling out of its 
place fometimes; I think a thong of leather 
fowed at one end tothe upper middle ipart of 
the quarter-heel of the ‘fhoe, and fattened at 
the other end to a garter, put above the 
calf of the leg, would ferve inftead of it, 
without ‘inconvenience. All that time 
I never walked the fteets, ‘but was carried in 
a chair.—— In going down ftairs, I al- 
ways put the difeafed leg firft down at each 
ftep; ‘and, in coming up, I put the found 
leg foremoft, by which I fhunned the ftretch- 
ing and retearing of the new fouldered finew, 
which, I knew from what others had fuffered, 
might have made the cafe worfe than it was at 
firft.—The habit Ihad got of walking after 
this manner in ftairs, became fo much a fe- 
cond nature, that I had afterwards difficulty to 
learn to go up and down inthe ordinary way, 
with the feet alternately. 
I continued the high-heeled fhoes for two 
years, Caufing my boots to be made after the 
fame fafhion, when I began to ride; but 
have gradually fince retrenched their height, 
till now I wear them of the common make. 
Dourince all that time too, I mounted my 
horfe at the right fide inftead of the left one, 
Mmm that 
