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preventing it; and perhaps they would be
unable were they to make the attempt. A
few iron bars, in the form of a cape, pla
placed round the Pillory, and so as to enclose
it, would be sufficient serve to prevent at
last least it might to protect exposed expose the life
of the patient to from danger.
The Carcan is an engine of punishment that
of in use of use in various countries and
particularly in China, is a species of portable
Pillory: it consists of a board with holes
in it and into which the neck & hands of the
patient are inserted, a which rests this board horizontally
upon his shoulders: thus accoutered the bears
he bears his instrument of punishment
about him for a greater or less length of time.
The Stocks is an instrument made in
the same manner as the Pillory except that it
has but two holes which are adapted to
receive the legs instead of the neck & hands.
The instrument being fixed to the ground the whole
body is at the same time disabled with respect
to the faculty of loco-motion.
With respect to In the instance of the two neat species of
punishment disablement they are employed
Identifier: | JB/159/171/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
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