a house may be preserved in the same manner. The purposes in domestic life to which this system is applicable, are almost infinite, and need no further specification.
We have already learned to divide a room into parts, as the floor and walls,—to subdivide these into places,—to change figures into letters,—and to form words; and, by these means, to remember series of figures, or of things. It would be a material advantage to us, to have some fixed or certain rooms: we may take, for instance, those with which we are best acquainted, and fix the different places upon the various articles of furniture, as a chair, a chest of drawers, etc. What we have learned, hitherto, is not sufficient: as yet, an intellectual order only has been obtained; numbers have been localised, but there is still a deficiency,—the realities are wanting.
If the reader has practised our instructions in a room in which he is accustomed to spend the greater part of his time, and this room should have been hung with pictures, engravings, or plans, or ornamented with busts, etc. he will have been very materially assisted in the remembrance of his places, or localities. We can, after a little practice, ascertain the order of different things placed in a room which we have long frequented. The transition is slight, but the im-
