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    largest trees in the world , the calabash and the mangrove , In Africa / Of whatever country he was learning he drew four maps the first was filled up with names of animals living therein ;

    the second with names of plants growing therein ; the third was a picture of rivers , lakes and mountains ; the fourth contained provinces and towns . A large portion of his reading consisted of travels , or rather I should say , of his hearing ; for portions were read to him carefully selected and reduced to the level of his capacity .

    He was tau g ht French on the same principle as he had been taught English . If he met with a sound formed by different letters he was led to observe the fact . For instance ., in the sentence , ' Regardez les bergers des troupeaux , the sound c a , ' as in the English word ' pain , ' is obtained in the first word by ez , " in the second by ' es , ' and in the third by ' ers \ After he had learned to read and spelL , he went over his language lessons again .

    * Je suis fits , je suis garqon , je suis frere ? Second series : je suis bony je suis paresseux . ' Third series : * je mange , je vois , j ' ecoute , tycJ ; and so on to the composition of sentences . Besides this exercise , he used to read a good deal every day , in order to give him a copia verborum . The literal English of each word was told him , and impressed upon him by various methods : the most successful seemed to be making him find out the . English

    derivatives , as from ' bon ? bun , ' cueillir , ' scullery , ' saliere , ' salt-cellar , &c . &c . &c . As for Latin , he learned the declensions of nouns by first being told the Latin for a word , and then making a sentence with it . At first the sentence would have but one Latin word in it , but by-and-by he was able to put in adjectives and verbs . The first sentences were such as these :

    ' Oculi nautarum watch terram . * ' We eat mellem , et poma , et porcellas , et uvas * * Columbce carry litteras . ' 4 Filia estfelix . * c Filius est fortis ? ' Manus reqince parvus est . ' f Rosa puellce parva e $ t .

    From these small beginnings he gradually rose up to the power of writing Latin , and the habit of writing gave him a great facility in reading . S . was careful to give him interesting things to read , both in French and Latin ; and she succeeded so well , that usually he was so anxious to get at the meaning of what he

    was reading , that he pushed through the difficulty of language eagerly . He was very fond of looking at the prints of Shakspeare , and hearing portions of it read . Julius Caesar one day caught his eye , and a miserable picture , of Brutus killing himself . * Oh , do tell mo the story , S . ! said he . ' No , you shall read it for yourself ; ' and she gave him extracts from various

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    864 Memoranda of Observations

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 864, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/46/