OR, A TREATISE ON PILE. 73 
Note to Tastes B, Nos. 1, 2, 3 anp 4.—All the terms used in these tables, which were 
previously used in Tables A, have the meaning already explained. 
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The word “hypo” (from upo, under,) and hyper (from uper, above,) are necessarily 
introduced into these tables, as they are based upon a division into 16 parts of blood ; 
these words bringing 8 parts into 16th. 
The whole nomenclature has been founded upon a division of eight, because it is not 
often desirable, or even practicable, to carry the division further. 
Examples.—“ Tetra-di-costin.” The tetra means ¢ or 58, ; the di means 2 or ;4;, making 
together, 12, the complement of which is, necessarily, ;4;, which, therefore, need not be 
expressed. 
Now, as ‘“costin”’ means black and Indian, (not Indian and black,) the “di,” (i. e., the 
3 or ‘g,) must refer to the black portions; the term “tetra,” (i. e., the 4 or ;8;,) refers to 
the race mixed with the costin, and as this is dlack X Indian, the “tetra-di-costin” is a 
triple race in the proportions of 8 4X4; i, e., 8 white, 4 black and 4 Indian. 
Nore To TasLE C.—All the terms used in this table have already been explained, and 
are used in the same senses. 
There is an advantage obtained by making each species primary in its turn, as is done in 
all these tables; for example, take the name “hexa-hypo mono,” which is a mixture of 
three species in the proportion of 12X13, counting in 8ths; the 42 reads “hexa,” the 51, 
(being made from 2 or ‘“‘mono,”’) preceded by “hypo,” indicating that it is less than 4, 
that is to say, 1, and the whole making “ hexa-hypo-mono-costin.”’ But if the order was 
from white to black, and also, from white to Indian, the third number would have to be 
indicated; and then, instead of the word ‘“ hexa-hypo-mono,’ now used, it would be 
necessary to write ‘ hexa-hypo-mono-hypo-mono,” which would be unwieldy. 
It is believed that the tables, as now presented, indicate all the shades in a distinct 
manner; and although some of the names may, at the first view, appear to be long, it is 
submitted that the same complicated idea cannot be expressed in any shorter manner. 
Tue Coverine or rue Heaps or Hysripvs.—The pile of the head of human hybrids 
does not exhibit one uniform new variety, varying from that of both parents; but gene- 
rally, perfect filaments which resemble that of the one parent, and other perfect filaments 
which resemble that of the other parent; for example, the progeny of a white and a black 
will have some perfect oval hairs, and some perfect eccentrically elliptical wool; so the 
progeny of a white and an Indian will have some perfect oval hairs and some perfect 
cylindrical hairs, and the progeny of an Indian and a black will have some perfect cylin- 
drical hair, and some perfect eccentrically elliptical wool; and, even further, one who has 
in his veins the blood of all these species will generally have in his head pile belonging to 
all three. Sometimes, however, where the constitutional energy of one parent outweighs 
that of the other, only one species of pile will be found. 
