PHYSICALand LITERARY. s^S 

 inftend of it, without inconvenience. 



All that time I never walked the ilreets, 



but was carried in a chair. ^ In gomg 



down flairs, I always put the difeaied 

 leg firft down at each ftep ; and, in co- 

 ming up, 1 put the found leg foiemoll, by 

 which I fhunned the ftretchnig and re- 

 te.sringof the new fbuldered linew, which, 

 I knew from what others had fufFeied, 

 might have made the cafe worle than it 



was at firft ^^The habit I had got of 



walking after this manner in flairs, bHe- 

 came fo much a fecond nature, that 1 had 

 afterwards difficulty to learn to go up 

 and down in the ordinary way, with the 

 feet alternately. 



I continued the high-heeled fhoes for 

 two years, caufing my boots to be made 

 after the fame fafliion, when I began to 

 ride ; but have gradually fince retrenched 

 their height, till now I wear them of the 

 common make. 



During all that time too, I mounted 

 my horfe at the right fide inflead of the 

 left one, that I might fhun the rearing 

 jny whole weight, by the force of the 



weak- 



