Phrenotypics.
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FOURTH EXPERIMENT.
The hearers write upon slips of paper, dates; for instance, 123, 1375, 1789, &c. These are read one after another, and noted down opposite the words constituting the above vocabulary, which will form, in a few minutes, a chronological table of the following shape.
| Rope, | 1510 |
| Box, | 1108 |
| Head, | 172 |
| Mirror, | 1455 |
| Strong, | 1125 |
| Leg, | 168 |
| Wet, | 182 |
| Door, | 125 |
| Angle, | 1386 |
| Beam, | 104 |
| Book, | 108 |
| Cupboard, | 810 |
| Polygon, | 1068 |
| Clock, | 867 |
| Crevice, | 859 |
| Love, | 69 |
| Liberty, | 610 |
| Embroidery, | &c. |
The phrenotyper will commit to his memory these strange historical dates with the same ease.
The phrenotyper is capable of committing to his brain, or to that of others initiated in the art, similar notions at the rate of at least two thousand per day; we say at least, for we often stretch it to double that number.
Every one will, we hope, naturally infer, that those who could commit to their memory such tables with such rapidity, would not be the slowest
