Wonders of bodily strength and skill, in all ages and countries (1885)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 148
I/eaping with Haltères.(From a carving—Caylus.) Leaping over Javelins.(From a carving—Caylus.) among this people as good long leapers as among theSpaniards. The best of my pupils did sixteen feet : and at … High Leap, (From a painted vase in the Hamilton collection. Madrid a young lad of thirteen years leapt eighteen feet.In the seventeenth century lived a clever Englishman, J 146 WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILL. William Stokes, who combined theory with practice, andwho boasted that he had…
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