any other similar quality. The second king is William Rufus, who ascended the throne in the year 1087; he will, of course, be placed in the same room, on the eighth stripe, and seventh place, and the whole of the stripes and places between this and the former, may be devoted to William the Conqueror.
Charlemagne, who was crowned Emperor in the year 800, is, naturally, placed on the cieling of the eighth room,—the room belonging to Midas. With Charlemagne may be arranged Egbert, or any king of another country whose reign was coeval with that of Charlemagne.
When the present historical arrangement has become familiar, it will be proper to take a sheet of paper for every century, forming a room and making the proper divisions of three walls and a floor, as above described. A particular fact maybe then put upon paper, by sketching a rude outline of the circumstances, by figures of animate or inanimate beings; this, though it may appear to some unnecessary, will imprint the different facts upon the memory more forcibly than the usual mode of committing them to writing. This will be sufficiently exemplified by the following hieroglyphic:
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