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children. In this branch of the line on the motlier's side, and in the male branch 

 on the father's side, it will be noticed that the rule of classification established in 

 the first collateral line is fully applied ; whilst in the other two branches the places 

 of nephew and son and of niece and daughter are reversed. 



Diagram Plate XI. represents the lineal and second collateral line, male and 

 female, on the father's side ; and Diagram Plate XII. represents the same lines 

 and branches on the mother's side, with Ego in both cases a male. It would 

 require two other diagrams to represent the relationships of the same persons to 

 Ec/o a female, with changes in the lower horizontal line of figures, where son and 

 daughter would give place to nephew and niece, and the latter to the former. 



The marriage relationships in this line are discriminated with equal particularity. 

 The wife of my father's brother is my mother, and of my mother's brother is my 

 aunt ; and the husband of my father's sister is my uncle, and of my mother's sister 

 is my father. At the next degree, the wives of my several collateral brothers arq 

 my sisters-in-law, the term used being that for female cousin ; but the wives of my 

 several male cousins are my younger sisters. In like manner the husbands of my 

 several collateral sisters are my brothers-in-law, the term used being that for male 

 cousin ; and the husbands of my several female cousins are my brothers, elder or 

 younger. Whether the liusbands and wives of my several collateral nephews and 

 nieces stand to me in any recognized relationship docs not appear in the Table, as 

 no questions were introduced into the schedule to determine that question ; but it 

 is probable that they were embraced within the comprehensive folds of the system. 



The four branches of the second collateral line have now been traced from the 

 point of their emergence from the lineal, first as divergent, then as parallel, and 

 lastly as convergent, until they Avere reunited with its descending stream. It is 

 seen that the descendants of my collateral kindred, after passing beyond a certain 

 numerical degree, are placed in the same category as my own direct posterity. The 

 cliain of consanguinity has been followed Avith great particularity, that the artificial 

 and complicated character of the system might be exhibited, as well as the rigor- 

 ous precision with which its minute details are adjusted. Nearly all the indicative 

 features of the system, together with its most important principles of classification 

 are contained in the first and second collateral lines. In those more remote the 

 classification is the same as far as tlie connection of consanguinei can be traced. 

 With this fact in mind the relationships in the remaining lines will be readily 

 understood as a descending series. 



In the third collateral line male, on the father's side, my grandfather's brother 

 is my grandfather. This is the ninth indicative feature of the system. He is also 

 distinguished from my lineal grandfather by prefixing the terms for great or little, 

 as he is older or younger than my own grandfather. The son of this grandfather 

 is my father ; his son and daughter are my brother and sister, elder or younger ; 

 the son of this collateral brother. Ego a male, is my son, and of this collateral 

 sister is my niece; and their children are my grandchildren. AVith Ego a female 

 the relationships of the children of this collateral brother and sister are reversed. 



My grandfather's sister is my grandmother, great or little ; her son and daughter 

 are my uncle and aunt, and tlicir children are my cousins. The children of my 



