Instructions in All Kinds of Gymnastic Exercises (extract)

15 partof the body. Both exercises should be lengthenedas much as possible; a repetition of the single one fifty times, and of the double one twenty, may be considered the maxi­ mum. The return of the feet to the ground must be scarcelyaudible. Raising the Knees. —The body is first placed in a proper standing position: a spring is then made upwards, so that the knees may approach as near as possibleto the breast. The position of the upper part of the body must be straight, though in­ clined a little forward; but the breast and headmust, by no means, sink so as to admit of the chin being nearly touched by the knees. DESCRIPTION OF THE LEAPING-STAND. The leaping-stand, which is represented in fig. 1, Plate II. consists of two moveable posts, a and h, about nine feet in height, and divided into a number of holes bored through them, at the distance of one inch, or two inches from each other, commencing at the secondfoot from the ground, as shown in the figure: x x, are two iron pegs which may be placed in the holes, at any required