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  • Mexico: acrobats dressed as eagles fly around a pole. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1820.
  • A woman acrobat holding a long stick and walking the tight rope. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
  • Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.