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who have previously sought her in vain. I only wish to excite 

 others to hiy aside, as I have done, the notions of the old philo- 

 sophers, to discard all previous opinion, and to reason only on 

 facts which can be demonstrated. I am contented when these 

 facts are pointed out to me by the greater industry of those who 

 are travelling, like myself, by short stages, from the bottom to the 

 top of a mountain. 



Yours, &c. 



Thomas Forster* 



XXIV. D;-, Spurzheim's demovstrative Course of Lectures on 

 Drs. Gall and Spurzheim's Pkysiognomonical System. 



[Continued from p. 63.] 



Lect. 9. v^ERTAiN functions are mediate, others immediate. 



XXIV. Organ of space. This teaches the relative position 'of 

 ol)jects to each other, and enables us to recollect places. 

 Gall is so delicient in this faculty that he often forgets the par- 

 ticular apartment of his patients, where there arfe, as in. Vienna, 

 many inhabitants in one house. This organ consists of two ele- 

 vations over the eyebrows at their iimer end. Astronomers, 

 travellers and voyagers have this organ highly developed, as in 

 Newton, Captain Cook, iScc. Animals also possess it, and find 

 their route from very remote places. Instances of dogs carried 

 in coaches from Vienna to Petersburg, and tp London, from 

 Paris to Marseilles and Naples, and vet they foiind their way 

 back to their original homes. These facts are inexplicable on 

 the supposition that animals smell the paths of their masters. 

 Gtits have likewise been known to travel several miles and carry 

 their kittens. Pigeons were taken from Liege to Paris and suf- 

 fered to escape : one returned to Liege in two hours, another was 

 B day, and a third returned after three davs. Some authors 

 have considered this a sixth sense. Swallows, storks, quails, 

 starlings, nightingales, &c. These fowls not only comeback to the 

 same climate and country, but to the same window, bush, chim- 

 ney, or tree. These migrations are not from want of food, as 

 they frequently occur when food is abundant, and certain birds 

 often arrive in certain climates before their proper food is pro- 

 duced. Nightingales in cages become uneasy and disquieted at 

 the period of emigration ; which proves an internal feeling. This 

 faculty makes the traveller, geographer, landscape painter; it 

 recollects localities, judges of symmetry, measures space and 

 distance, and gives notions of perspective. The primitive faculty 

 h apace, as all things have localities, 



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