CHAPTER THREE.
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY .-- A "WONDERFUL PHENOMENON."-- "THE INCOMBUSTIBLE SPANIARD, SENOR LIONETTO," 1803 .-- JOSEPHINE GIRARDELLI, 1814 .-- JOHN BROOKS, 1817 .-- W.

C.HOUGHTON, 1832 .-- J.

A.B.

CHYLINSKI, 1841 .-- CHAMOUNI, THE RUSSIAN SALAMANDER, 1869 .-- PROFESSOR REL MAEUB, 1876 .-- RIVALLI (died 1900).
In the nineteenth century by far the most distinguished heat-resister was Chabert, who deserves and shall have a chapter to himself.

He commenced exhibiting about 1818, but even earlier in the century certain obscurer performers had anticipated some of his best effects.
Among my clippings, for instance, I find the following.