he machinery in cupboard No. 1, and
his legs in the space occupied by the drawer. The exhibiter, therefore,
finds himself at liberty to display the main compartment. This
he does--opening both its back and front doors--and no person Is
discovered. The spectators are now satisfied that the whole of the box
is exposed to view--and exposed too, all portions of it at one and the
same time. But of course this is not the case. They neither see the
space behind the drawer, nor the interior of cupboard No. 1--the front
door of which latter the exhibiter virtually shuts in shutting its
back door. Maelzel, having now rolled the machine around, lifted up the
drapery of the Turk, opened the doors in his back and thigh, and shown
his trunk to be full of machinery, brings the whole back into its
original position, and closes the doors. The man within is now at
liberty to move about. He gets up into the body of the Turk just so
high as to bring his eyes above the level of the chess-board. It is
very probable that he seats himself upon the little square block or
protuberance which is seen in a corner of the main compartment when the
doors are open. In this position he sees the chess-board through the
bosom of the Turk which is of gauze. Bringing his right arm across his
breast he actuates the little machinery necessary to guide the left arm
and the fingers of the figure. This machinery is situated just beneath
the left shoulder of the Turk, and is consequently easily reached by
the right hand of the man concealed, if we suppose his right arm brought
across the breast. The motions of the head and eyes, and of the right
arm of the figure, as well as the sound _echec _are produced by other
mechanism in the interior, and actuated at will by the man within. The
whole of this mechanism--that is to say all the mechanism essential to
the machine--is most probably contained within the little cupboard
(of about six inches in breadth) partitioned off at the right (the
spectators' right) of the main compartment.

In this analysis of the operations of the Automaton, we have purposely
avoided any allusion to the manner in which the partitions are shifted,
and it will now be readily comprehended that this point is a matter
of no importance, since, by mechanism within the ability of any common
carpenter, it might be effected in an infinity of different ways, and
since we have shown that, however performed, it is performed out of
the view of the specta