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v immediate instruction. As soon as they have become expert in drawing the figures of the first class, a second may be formed to be instructed by the first class, (which now becomes the second) and so on to the sixth. The highest class under the master, may consist of about fifteen pupils. The lower classes may consist of any number, but for every six or eight scholars there should be a monitor.

The first class draw right lines, angles, parallels, perpendiculars and triangles.

The second class draw polygons, and polyedrons, or solid figures of many sides.

The third class make circles, and regular polygons.

The fourth draw a protracter, make angles of a given opening, draw ellipses, cylinders, cones, spheres, &c.

The fifth apply the preceding figures to architectural drawings, vases, and tasteful ornaments.

The sixth class draw the orders of architecture, and such other objects as an ingenious instructer shall direct.

If the school do not consist of more than 30 or 40 pupils, there will be no need of employing as monitors any but the highest class.

The children should not be permitted to draw on paper, until they have become thoroughly acquainted with the figures of the five first classes. Before they attempt the sixth, they may be permitted to review the five preceding classes, drawing the figures on paper with a lead pencil.

The pupils are not to be allowed the use of a rule, or any other instrument; but the monitor, to correct and prove their figures, may be furnished with a rule,