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finishes the movement, as a (2.) R. 2. means advance two steps to the 2d position of the right. In private declamations or recitations on a platform or rostrum, these figures are not necessary: as a single step in advancing or retiring is sufficient.

Changes of position or steps are considered to be executed only by the foot on which the body is not supported, for that foot alone is free. Should it be required to move the foot which supports the body, (suppose the left foot in the first position of the right fig. 2.) two motions are necessary, in the first the position must be changed to R. 2. fig. 3, so as to throw the weight of the body on the right foot, then the left may be moved as required.

According to this principle it will be found that from each original position, four steps may be made. The plan in the original position is in the centre, and drawn larger, the plan of the steps made from that original position is represented smaller. The line of motions of the feet is represented by a dotted line nearly of the form which each foot should trace; the line of the free or first moving foot is marked with a star. In the figures it will be observed, that from each position four steps may be made, in advance, retiring, traversing, and across. In advancing and traversing, each step finishes on the 2d position of the advancing foot, and in retiring from the first position, the step finishes on the 1st of the contrary foot; but from the second, it finishes on the first of the same foot. Fig. 13 and 14.

In crossing from the first position, the foot passes before and finishes on the 2d position, and from the second position it passes behind the planted foot, and finishes on the first.

The steps from the two positions of the left are similar, and do not require to be explained by another figure.

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CHAPTER XII.

OF POSITIONS, MOTIONS, AND ELEVATIONS OF THE ARMS.

The motions of the arm in the vertical and transverse direction the foundation of this system of notation-The place of the spectator's eye with respect to the circles imagined for the uses of notation. The angles formed by the different intervals of gestures-Enumeration and notation of the systematic positions, motions, and elevations of the arm-The great variety of gesture arising from combinations of the simple or systematic positions-These combinations encreased by the energy of the action considered in a threefold degree-Particular positions of the arms arising from other relations and circumstances.

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