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and to be able to recall them in regular order, if such is the case, you must use the four principles of the system, or in other words, Locate your ideas; this is to be done (as previously shown) by imagining between the point of the subject, and the respective position of Locality. You have already divided your room into nine, (P. G. 9.) but if you think of locating a long subject the nine divisions will of course not be sufficient, you may obtain more then, by "sub-dividing every division into nine. If, however that was to be recklessly done, our positions and ideas would be brought so close together by imagination, that they would be sure to one clash with the other, in order then, to avoid such a misfortune, let us before attempting to increase the number of our positions, try to insure the proper retention, and working of the nine that we at the present time have. That may be most easily done by giving each of the nine positions a familiar name, commencing with the Mnemonical representative for its number, example: position "1" is represented by "T" or "B" thus wishing to give that position a name, we must accordingly give it one commencing either with "T" or "B." I take the "T" and call position one "Tree." "2" is "L" or "W" I take the "L" and call position two "Lion" and each of the other positions similar, as is shown below.
