shews them the cardinal points, tells them how it was
discovered, and then he will move the hands around,
beginning at the north, and making the children repeat
as he moves the hands, north, north-north-east, north-east,
east-north-east, east, east-south-east, south-east,
south-south-east, south, south-south west, south-west,
west-south-west, west, west-north-west, north-west,
north-north-west, north. The degrees, &c., may
be considered as going too far for infants; we therefore
reserve them until we treat of juvenile schools.
We have not thought it necessary to name all the points
of the compass, but have confined ourselves to the
principal ones. No. 5 then hands the class to
No. 6, who has on his post representations of the
following fishes, viz., whale, sword fish, white
shark, sturgeon, skate, John Dorey, salmon, grayling,
porpoise, electrical eel, horned silure, pilot fish,
mackerel, trout, red char, smelt, carp, bream, road
goldfish, pike, garfish, perch, sprat, chub, telescope
carp, cod, whiting, turbot, flounder, flying scorpion,
sole, sea porcupine, sea cock, flying fish, trumpet
fish, common eel, turtle, lobster, crab, shrimp, star
fish, streaked gilt head, remora, lump fish, holocenter,
torpedo. No. 6, then gives the class to No. 7;
and as variety is the life and soul of the plan, his
post may be supplied with a botanic plate, containing
representations of the following flowers:—daffodil,
fox-glove, hyacinth, bilberry, wild tulip, red poppy,
plantain, winter green, flower de luce, common daisy,
crab-tree blossom, cowslip, primrose, lords and ladies,
pellitory of the wall, mallow, lily of the valley,
bramble, strawberry, flowering rush, wood spurge, wild
germander, dandelion, arrow-head. No. 8 monitor
has on his post a set of geometrical figures, illustrated
by the representation of objects either natural or
artificial of the same shape; thus a triangle illustrated
by one side of a pyramid, a square, a pentagon, a hexagon,
a heptagon, an octagon, a nonagon, a decagon.
No. 9 monitor has another set of geometrical definitions
on the same principle, as a perpendicular line, a
horizontal line, an oblique line, parallel lines,
curved lines, diverging or converging lines, an obtuse
angle, a circle. No. 10 a different set of geometrical
shapes, viz. sociles-triangles, scolene-triangles,
rectangle, rhomb, rhomboid, trapezoid, trapeziums,
ellipse or oval. Having arrived at No. 11, the
class find here the European costumes, viz.
Englishman, Frenchman, Russian, Swiss, Italian, German,
Scotchman, Welchman, Irishman, Turk, Norwegian, Spaniard,
Prussian, Icelander, Dutchman, Dane, Swede, Portugese,
Corsican, Saxon, Pole. No. 11 monitor delivers
them to No. 12, and there they may find pictures representing
Negroes, Otaheiteans, Highlanders, American Indians,
East Indians, Laplanders, Greeks, Persians, Sandwich
Islanders, Turks, English, Chinese, Dutch, Tartars.