the Surry Institution, before a numerous assembly of Proprietors and Subscribers, by the examination of five young persons, who had previously been committed to the care of M. Von Feinaigle.[1]
"1. Master H. S. (13 years of age) determined the geographical situation of fifty principal towns in different parts of the globe, assigning to each its longitude and latitude in degrees and minutes, and named the country in which it is found. He also marked on a blank planisphere the true situation of the towns named to him.
"2. Miss P. K. (11 years of age) repeated fifty stanzas of four lines each, from the second part of Mrs. More's 'Sir Eldred of the Bower.' These she repeated consecutively, and in any order desired. On any remarkable word being mentioned, she determined the stanza, the line, and the place of the line, in which it was to be found; and also how many times the same word occurred in the Poem.
"3. Miss M. A. K (15 years of age) answered to all the declensions, as well of substantives as of adjectives, of the Latin language; and gave a full account of all the conjugations,
- ↑ The whole of this report is taken from the Morning Post of April 18th, 1812.
