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is not exceeded, if approached, by the jugglers of any 
other country in the world. 
When they had done with the balls, the upper man 
took a number of small cylindrical pieces of steel, 
two inches long ; several of these he placed upon hi 
nose, producing a slender rod full a foot in length, 
which, in spite of his difficult position, he balanced 
so steadily that not one of the pieces fell. He then 
crossed the taper column with a flat bar of copper, half 
an inch wide and four inches long ; upon this he 
fixed one of his little cylinders, and on the top of 
that a slight spear ; the whole of which he balanced 
with perfect steadiness, finally taking off every sepa- 
rate piece and throwing it upon the ground: thus 
concluded this extraordinary performance. Grasping 
hands as before, the little man sprang upon his feet, 
and made his obeisance to the gallery. 
This feat appears to have been something similar, 
though much less extraordinary, to one mention- 
ed in the autobiography of the Mogul Emperor Jehan- 
guire ; the truth, however, of which I am much dis- 
posed to question, as it appears to me to involve phy- 
sical impossibilities. 
One of seven men,” says the imperial author, 
“ stood upright before us, a second passed upwards 
along his body, and, head to head, placed his feet up- 
wards in the air. A third managed to climb up in 
the same manner, and planting his feet to those of the 
second, stood with his head upwards ; and so alter- 
nately to the seventh, who crowned this marvellous 
human pillar with his head uppermost. And what 
excited an extraordinary clamour of surprise, was to 
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