36 the goat. 
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In this manner the goat stood first on the top 
one cylinder, then on the top of two, and after 
wards of three, four, five, and six, until 
remained balanced upon the top of them all' 
elevated several feet from the ground, an^ 
with its four feet collected upon a single point' 
without throwing down the disjointed fabric 
on which it stood. The practice is very aH' 
cient. Nothing can show more strikingly tb^ 
tenacious footing possessed by this quadrupel^ 
upon the jutting points and crags of rocks! 
and the circumstance of its ability to remain 
thus poised may render its appearance less sur 
prising, as it is sometimes seen in the AlpS' 
and in all mountainous countries, with hardl) 
any place for its feet, upon the sides and b) 
the brink of most tremendous precipices. Tb^ 
diameter of the cylinder on which its feet ult^' 
mately remained until the Arab had ended bi^^ 
ditty was only two inches, and the length 
each cylinder was six inches.” 
