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These are all the explanations, which an article of this kind will admit, respecting the details of practice. They will suffice to show, that, in saying that deaf-mutes must acquire language, very much as ordinary children acquire it, nothing is affirmed derogatory to the pretensions (if the art under consideration to a distinguished rank in the intellectual scale. Enough appears, even in this meagre account, to prove, that, in the task set before the instructor, there is ample room for the exercise of all his talent, and all his ingenuity, and all his perseverance.

The principles detailed in this paper, are those of the institution with which the writer is connected. In the reports of that institution, more especially in the fifteenth and sixteenth, they may be found more fully discussed.