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The Student must be sensible by this time, how essential it is to get by heart the lon, and lat. of places, for that being done, he can in an instant draw his parallels and insert them, either on the plane of Mercator, (i. ė. straight lines,) or on a Stereographic projection, (i. e. like a Hemisphere.)

I do not use minutes in the lon. and lat. as there is no occasion, unless when accurate calculations are wanted to be made; and then it may be done by taking two words for the lon. and two for the lat. and then the first word for each will stand for the degrees,, and the second word will denote the minutes in making out the lon. and lat. of places, if the minutes exceed 30, take a whole deg. for them, but if they are under 80, take the preceding deg. so that you will always be within a few minutes.

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When you have fixed your countries and places by the eye (of the mind) on the Walls of your Room, you will only have to recollect two short words for the deg. of lon. and lat. of any place. Whatever places occupy your upper Room must be N. lat. and those which are found in your lower Room must be S. lat. as I have already told that your Floor is to represent your Equator. All places that are found to the right of the meridian of London, (whether in N. or S. lat.) will have E. lon. and all places on the left hand of the meridian of London will possess W. lon. so that the words, (at) and (with) (is) and (was) may be dispensed with, when once you know what Wall and Room any place is in. Also, those who are already acquainted with the Science will have but two words for recollecting the number of deg. for both lon. and lat.-Example, instead of saying, at Archangel in Russia, is a fat mule, I would only

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say, Archangel's fat mule,-for I should well know it was on my right hand Wall, and in my upper Room; and the words (fat mule) give me 39 E. longitude, and 65 North latitude, almost to the top of the Wall, and near the fourth division. In looking on a Map or Hemisphere, you have all the places in the same position, viz. before you ;but if you transfer them to the Wall, you will have them on a very extended scale surrounding you, and will carry them with the mind's eye" into every Room you go.

A TABLE

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LONGITUDES & LATITUDES.

Ilon. lat.

At Abeville France
Aberdeen Scotland
Abo Sweden
Acapulco Mexico
Achen Sumatra I.
Adrianople Turkey
Agra Hindostan
Aix France

Alderney I. English Channel

Aleppo Syria

Alexandria Egypt
Algiers Africa

Amboyna I. Moluccas
Amsterdam Holland
Ancona Italy

St. Andrew's Scotland
Annapolis Nova Scotia
Antwerp Netherlands
Archangel Russia
Arran I. Scotland
Astracan Russia
Athens Turkey
Ava Asia
Avignon France
Babelmandel Straits
Babylon Syria
Bagdad Syria
Baltimore Ireland

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is gauze fib

is ode fop
is beaudupe hoe
is oil old
is a big hook
was foe line

was a mouse hole
is joe lace

is a fat mule
was a wool line

is hair kine

is duke fair

is time dead
is oil hose
is a joke bag
is jig fig

is hook egg
I was wove lace

is cider oil

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Bombay East Indies Boston America

Botany Bay New Holland
Bourbon I. Indian Ocean

Bourdeaux France
Bremen Germany
Breslaw Silesia
Brest France

Bristol England
Brunswick Germany
Brussels Netherlands

Buda Hungary

Burgos Spain
Cadiz Spain

Cagliari Sardinia

Cairo Egypt

Calcutta Bengal
Calmar Sweden

Cambray Netherlands

Canary I. (N. E. point)

Candia Candia I.

Canton China

Carlscrona Sweden

Cassel Germany

Cayenne I. of Cayenne

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is a rare dog
is boom loop
is foe lax
was cane deer
is deal fool
is a cubic dog
is a blue line
is box lace

is a sea eel

Chandernagora Hindostan is a rat dog

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lon. lat.

Cherbourg France

Christiana Norway

was doe lax

is bob maze

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