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the reader that in the walk one fore foot is on the 

 ground when tlie other is off it, therefore the fel- 

 low leg is hearing the body's weight whilst the 

 foot is being put from h'" to a'''. 



In passing forward the foot from h'" to a'" the 

 leg is 



1.— Flexed. 



2. — Dragged forward whilst flexed. 



3. — Then extended. 



Now we saw that the spinal column had its own 

 intrinsic muscles by which it moved itself, and 



Figure 9. 



we saw that this movement was a wriggle, and 

 we also saw that it was moved by muscles from 

 without itself, or extrinsic muscles. So it is with 

 the limbs, they can flex and extend themselves, 

 but they require muscles which have their fixed 

 points elsewhere to move them bodily onwards. 

 Now, referring to Fig. 9, B, we find the limb 

 flexed as represented by the right hand figure. 



