of the same plate, a man or two are raised in the direction CM, by the knees of the strong man IHL lying upon his back.

A trial will suffice to show that this is not a difficult feat for a man of ordinary strength.
Wanley [4] enumerates thirty men of might, each of whom was famous in his time.

Notable among them was Barsabas, who first made a reputation in Flanders, where he lifted the coach of Louis XIV, which had sunk to the nave in the mud, all the oxen and horses yoked to it having exerted their strength in vain.

For this service the king granted him a pension, and being soon promoted, he at length rose to be town-major of Valenciennes.
Barsabas entering one day a farrier's shop in a country village, asked for horse shoes, the farrier showed him some, which Barsabas snapped in pieces as if they had been rotten wood, telling the farrier at the same time that they were too brittle, and good for nothing.

The farrier wanted to forge some more, but Barsabas took up the anvil and hid it under his cloak.