on the floor: on this are put 1, 2, 3, etc. to 9. The number 100 must be placed on the cieling of the second room, which should be divided in the same way. This number will also serve as an inscription to designate the room.
As it will be needful to appropriate a room to each century, there will be occasion for a series of rooms. This series will be thus arranged.
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Here are the hundreds; and those before 100 are placed in the preceding or O room. There is now a necessity for a tenth room. To obviate this inconvenience it will be easy to suppose that the house is a double house. Thus we shall be furnished with rooms for 2000 years.
But whence, it will be asked, are so many rooms to be procured? Every one is familiar with the apartments in his own house. All these rooms must be employed, and named, first, seventh, fourth, etc. and it will be better to choose rooms which are supplied with pictures, furniture, or some other remarkable objects, upon which numbers may be fixed. Each room will be distinguished by one of the symbols. The first room will have the tower of Babel painted upon it; and to fix this more
