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the faculty now spoken of; to the former who hare 
prescribed theatres of action and high endowments 
of external sense and instinct it would be super¬ 
fluous, to the latter in whom the individuals exercise 
for the most part ,separate ranges of mental occupa¬ 
tion and enjoyment, who lead individual existences, 
acting apart from all other, and in whom there exists 
the enterprising spirit of research,—it is indispen¬ 
sable. There is a fact which occurs to me at this 
illustrates in a marked manner this directing faculty. A horse 
bred at North Buckland, and taken into service at the age of three 
years by a landowner close to Plymouth, happened some years 
after to escape into the roads, when he directly made off for the 
farm where he had been reared though at the distance of fourteen 
miles and by a road he had never travelled in the interval. A cat 
reared and domiciled in Falmouth was taken in a bag to Penzance; 
she soon became uneasy and disappeared, and within two days 
was observed at her original abode. Dogs and horses in their 
journeyings with us are very observant of all objects which they 
pass, and thus on losing themselves, are often able to regain their 
homes, but this is accomplished through [the faculty termed phre- 
nologically “ Locality ” whose sphere of action is the observation of 
the relative positions and bearings of objects, and differs greatly 
from the above-named, though I feel no reason to doubt that as 
we exercise the two conjointly on many occasions, and find that 
they are probably traceable to one and the same “ organ ” of the 
brain, so those animals endowed with the directing faculty often 
exercise it in conjunction with the recognition of localities and 
objects. A gentleman just returned from the Continent to London, 
went directly on his arrival to Blackheath, through the City and 
over London Bridge. After he had quitted his friend’s house on 
Blackheath he found that his dog had been detained behind, but 
yet on arriving home at the West End he observed the dog waiting 
for him at the door. In such cases I presume the two faculties 
operate connectedly. 
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