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of leather fig 7. 8. was put round the 

 foot, and another round the leg, to pafs 

 through the two ftapple.s near the ends of 

 the machine, and there fecured with 

 flraps or buckles, but without being 

 drawn tight. A third flrap or rib- 

 band, fig 9 having its middle D, applied 

 in the hollow of the foot, immediately 

 bffore the heel, had its ends pafTed on 

 each fide of the foot, through a finus or 

 noofe EE, of a fourth thong of leather F, 

 that came round the quarter-heel of the 

 fhoe, to be afterwards put through the 

 middle ftapple ; where, after thefe ends 

 GG were drawn as tight as was thought 

 convenient for extending the foot, they 

 were fecured with the buckle, or with 

 knots. See the application in fig. lo. — 

 I wore this machine always in the day- 

 time, for five months : Though, as it is 

 inconvenient, by fhufHing out of its place 

 fometimes, I think a thong of leather 

 fowed at one end to the upper middle 

 part of the quarter-heel of the fhoe, and 

 fa^ened at the other end to a garter, 

 put above the calf of the leg, would ferve 



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