a city of Prussian Silesia, in the government of Reichenbach and circle of Hirschberg. It stands on the river Yssel, at the foot of the Kahlenberg Mountains, but is 1400 feet above the level of the sea. It is an open place, of only two streets, more than two miles in length, and contains 550 houses, with 4830 inhabitants, who make some of the finest damask table-linens, and many other kinds of goods. The mountain behind it rises to 3300 feet.

SCHENOBATES (from the Greek, σκοίνος, a rope, and βάτει, I walk), a name which the Greeks gave to their rope-dancers. By the Romans they were called fumambuli. The schenobates were slaves whose masters made money of them, by entertaining the people with their feats of activity. Mercurialis (De Arte Gymnastica, lib. iii.) gives us five figures of schenobates, engraven after ancient stones.