4. 
by wading through this treatise, as by 
secking them in the hieroglyphics of an 
_Egypuan obelisk. It is pretty evident 
that this ¢ Gazypholium,’ was designedly 
inteuded: asa Jabysinghal series: the 
author indeed closes his labours by con- 
feesing, that the work was to be intrusted 
only to his scholars, and referring for 
further elucidation. to _ oral precepts. 
The very basis of bis art is concealed , 
beneath a jumble of signs and abbrevi- 
ations: thus, sect Qo. d. a sect. 99; 
*‘ vidilicet, ‘locus, imago ordo locorum, 
memoria loci, imagines.” And further, 
in setting forth the most important 
points, he amuses himself by evincing a 
multitude of jingling, and unintellivible 
words. As this work, besides being a 
literary curiusity, had of late years be- 
come extremely rare; Doctor Klueber 
not long since published a German 
translation of u, and by his happy dex- 
terity in decyphering, has unravelied the 
ambiguous passages in the original, and 
illustrated:them with a. profusion of per- 
tinent annotations. * 
At ali events, this work is a singular 
production. Agreeably to the character 
of Schenkel’s system, his development 
of the art does iiot cop ane itself to me- 
chanical ideas.alone. It sets the tech- 
nical, symbolical, and logical faculties 
of the memory, -in equal activity; and 
—— EE ———————————ecorararcccOOoooorrmmonmn' 
* Compendium der - Mnemonik, 
Compendivm of Mnemonics, or the Art of 
Memory at the beginning of theseventeenth 
century, by L. Schenkel, and M. Sommer. 
‘Translated from the Ractis with a Preface and 
Remarks, by D. Kliioer. Erlangen, Palm. 
1804 85 pp. 104. 
Rei P lahat MC ea AI LASER chal leMMNE Mb AANA Seks esl RE 
1808. 1809-9 
&c. 
Meteorological Observations for the Fears 1808-9. [Feb. 1, 
requires that its powers should be at once 
ingenious and perceptive. Its acquire- 
ment, is -founded en the association of - 
ideas: nor does it fail to call wit and 
imagination in aid of natural memory, 
Sommer ’s Compendium, consisting of eight 
sections, was printed for the use of his. 
auditors. After his departure, permis- 
‘sion is given to his scholars to commu-. 
nicate their mnemonistic doubts, obser- 
vations, and discoveries, to each other; 
but no one can be present without Je- 
galizing himself previously, as one of the 
initiated, by prescribed signs: and he 
who fails in this, is excluded asa pro- 
fanerasiih 
In thus tracing the origin of Mocote: 
nics, and their progress, down to the 
sixteenth century, if the reader’s curiosity 
should be awakened by these memoranda 
of mine, he will find it gratified by a 
reference to Cicero and Morhof, than 
whom no writer has so amply treated 
of Memory, and its assistants. Gray’s 
‘Memoria Technica’ will supply him 
with much information on this sub- 
ject, to which the student’s attention is 
also directed, in a plan of artificial me- 
mory, lately laid down in Rebinson’s 
¢ Grammar of History.’ 
Your’s, &c. LipsIEnsis. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Maat 
SIR, 
N conformity with the usual plan of 
your Magazine, I send you a sum- 
mary of meteorological observations for 
the year which has just expired. I 
shall begin with setting down the average 
heat of each month, for the years 1808 
~and 1809, which is as follows: 
January - - - - a - - 30° 500 }4/93382*4180 
February - = - ° - - - 39 °230 44 +800 
March - = - ait law - - 39 +230 42 +536 
April TRIN ate cnr ae 42 000. | 42 -2Co0 
May ELeiitetariae lel tai 8 ieee ey he 64*733 | 56 +120 
June SB ele gibig cyl 9 Pend ees Bs ery 61-000 | 58 *033 
July - - - = - - - 68 -000 62 °316 
Augast - - - - - - - 64 *670 64 +220 
Se pteriber - - - - a - - 60 -000= 61 +000 
October - - - - - - - 49 -000 AQ *35U 
November <= .-5 0 4 - - - 43 +250 41 +500 
December - - - mh ples - ~ 86 *825 86 +500 
Mean Temperature - 50°°619 49°°259 © 
seh ai aie aaa EER ee) eR 8 AE 8 
From .the foregoing Table it will be 
seen, that the first four months in the 
last year, and likewise October and. De- 
cember, were hetter than the same 
montks in 18038; but in the other months, 
the highest temperature was in 1808; 
and on the, whole year, the average 
height of the thermometer was nearly a 
degree and a half lower in 1809, than im 
the | preceding year. 
