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NEW ART OF MEMORY.

shire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire.

VI. North. Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland, Lancashire, Westmoreland, Cumberland.

VII. North Wales. Montgomeryshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Caernarvonshire, Anglesea.

VIII. South Wales. Glamorganshire, Brecknockshire, Radnorshire, Caermarthenshire, Cardiganshire, Pembrokeshire.

All these Circuits are numbered in a series as ladders, and the counties are the steps; therefore 4,4 will be 4th circuit, 4th county, and so of the rest. The symbol of 44 is a pianoforte; if it be said that the keys of the instrument are bound with worsted, Worcestershire will be immediately brought to our recollection. In the same manner we must proceed with the others, fixing each on a symbol, and connecting some strange and ludicrous idea with this symbol.

The student should be prepared with a small map of England which is not coloured; and colour the circuits, each with a separate colour, The first, for instance, blue; the second, yellow; the third, green; the fourth, red; the fifth, lilac; and when he comes to the sixth, begin again. When this is done, it must be