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Fig. 55. 



5. His next feat was to lie down on the ground, 

 as in Fig. 56 ; a man being then placed on his 

 knees, he draws his heels towards his body, and, 

 raising his knees, he lifts up the man gradually, 

 till having brought his knees perpendicularly 

 under him, as in Fig. 57, he raises his own body 

 up, and placing his arms round the man's legs, 

 he rises with him, and sets him down on some 

 low table or eminence of the same height as his 

 knees. This feat he sometimes performed with 

 two men in place of one. 



6. The last and apparently the most wonderful 

 performance of the German is shown in Fig. 58, 

 where he appears to raise a cannon A placed upon 

 a scale, the four ropes of the scale being fixed to 



