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The text discusses how a load-bearing figure must distribute weight to maintain balance. It emphasizes adjusting the loaded shoulder and hip movement to achieve equilibrium. It also advises observing how these adjustments appear in sketches of figures standing on different feet.

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How the Counterbalance of a Load Bearer was Found.

You further observe in this example, how the Image leans towards the lighter side, to thereby make the weight of its Taken Load even to that side. And to make this happen more lightly and fittingly, it is necessary that the loaded Shoulder raises itself somewhat; and the other is slightly lowered. Here, one must learn a general Rule, that a Person in their usual manner, always directs the Center of their greatest weight to the Foot which they plant on the Ground in steps; and there they support themselves in the middle Moment of their two-Legged walk.

But just as we see in this Example that the Left Hand is placed on the Hip, to lift the acquired Load higher with the Shoulder; And that the Hip sways to the Right or unloaded side, this should surprise no one since the Image stands on that Leg at this determined moment; And what we said earlier, always the Centre of gravity even in an unloaded condition passes through or in the middle by the planted Foot's Leg; which must happen mostly in a Loaded Person; And so if the Hip does not sway in such a case, at the side where the image rests, it will not only stand ungracefully, but the Load will seem to fall towards there. We then see in this Sketch a Load-bearing Man standing on the Right Foot, let us examine the same case in the following by an Image standing on the Left Foot; And we shall see that what we've said regarding the swaying of the Hips is true and accurate: For although this Image with