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Rh heels for all time. I seemed to be alive all over. My legs would spring one way, while my hands and arms would go another. I felt that I could have done anything—my body was all vitality and power—but the annoyance was that I had no control over this power, yet it was most enjoyable. The sense of vigour and energy within me as realized during the trip that followed these preparations was something far beyond description. There is no illustration that I could give you, Reader, which would make you realize what I felt during those moments. The Recorder said:—"The instruments that you have christened leg weights, and that we in a measure use as leg weights, are generators—they collect power from the atmosphere. We place them on our ancles to make the lower extremities of our bodies heavy. When so placed they act as ballast to keep us erect.

"I caused you to wear them first without being connected and made active, to accustom you to their weight. I see that you feel them