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elbow remained where it was? It certainly 

 would. Still it would not bring the hand up 

 to the head, nor half way to it. But suppose 

 once more, that the lower end of the rope 

 were fastened still nearer the elbo\v. The 

 nearer it is, the farther it draws up the hand, 

 when it shrinks. 



Now the end, or tendon of the muscles, 

 which shrink to draw the hand up towards the 

 head, is fastened to the arm below the elbow ; 

 but is close to it, so that, in shrinking only an 

 inch or so, it draws the hand up to the head. 

 If you lay the other hand on your arm, be- 

 tween the shoulder and the elbow, you can 

 feel it contract, and at the same time see it 

 swell out. 



If the lower end of the tendon of this muscle 

 were fastened lower down, that is, farther from 

 the elbow, it would start out so far, when we 

 raise our arm, as to make a very singular ap- 

 pearance, unless a band were put around it at 

 the elbow, to keep it down, which would have 

 been very inconvenient. As it now is, the 

 tendon starts out a little way, as you may see 

 by the engraving, and as you may know by 



