MOTION. 
equal length, equally extended, and represented 
at the moment when the previously swinging 
leg is placed on the ground; but fig. 260, 
which is walking slowly, has the leg advanced 
far beyond the vertical. Fig. 259, which is 
walking quicker, has the leg less advanced, 
whilst fig. 258, which represents the greatest 
possible celerity, has the foot placed directly 
in the vertical line, passing through the head of 
the femur. We observe also that of the paths 
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described by the swinging leg of the three 
figures, that of fig. 260 has nearly completed 
the entire curve, that of fig. 259 a little more 
than half, and that of fig. 258 exactly half 
the curve; and that the dotted line which 
serves to indicate the path of the leg is least 
in fig. 260, greater in ‘he. 259, and greatest in 
Jig. 258. The time is greatest in fig. 260, less 
in fig. 259, and least in jig. 258; conse- 
quently, when the leg swings beyond the 
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feet) 
