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286 THE SYSTEMS OF BECKONING TIME.
at once formed, if we continue the series by now mak-
ing the first element female and the first animal male,
and then the same element male and the next animal
female, &c.
Perhaps the following combination may not be un-
worthy of our attention, since it equally excludes re-
petitions, and has besides the advantage of not extending
the series beyond 252. In the group from 13-72 the
genders of the elements are undecided, the animals also
have no particle appended; failing this, however, usage
warrants us in regarding them as males. This suppo-
sition is confirmed by the representations wherever they
are distinct enough; moreover, in verbal explanations the
male nouns are almost exclusively used, as, e. g. ram in
stead of sheep, &c. In the concluding series from 193
to 252 the gender of the elements might also be con-
sidered to remain undefined, while the animals might all
be taken as females. The combination of two parts of
diverse gender rather seems not to be in contradiction
with what we may suppose to be intended in Hue's
words; and the combination of the elements with
female animals, besides, derives probability from its being
that particular connexion which properly completes the
series in form as well as in number.
As an illustration of the combinations resulting, I
add a list of all the years in the cycle of 252 in
which the mouse, the first of the series of animals,
occurs.
Year 1. Mouse.
„ 13. Wood-mouse.
at once formed, if we continue the series by now mak-
ing the first element female and the first animal male,
and then the same element male and the next animal
female, &c.
Perhaps the following combination may not be un-
worthy of our attention, since it equally excludes re-
petitions, and has besides the advantage of not extending
the series beyond 252. In the group from 13-72 the
genders of the elements are undecided, the animals also
have no particle appended; failing this, however, usage
warrants us in regarding them as males. This suppo-
sition is confirmed by the representations wherever they
are distinct enough; moreover, in verbal explanations the
male nouns are almost exclusively used, as, e. g. ram in
stead of sheep, &c. In the concluding series from 193
to 252 the gender of the elements might also be con-
sidered to remain undefined, while the animals might all
be taken as females. The combination of two parts of
diverse gender rather seems not to be in contradiction
with what we may suppose to be intended in Hue's
words; and the combination of the elements with
female animals, besides, derives probability from its being
that particular connexion which properly completes the
series in form as well as in number.
As an illustration of the combinations resulting, I
add a list of all the years in the cycle of 252 in
which the mouse, the first of the series of animals,
occurs.
Year 1. Mouse.
„ 13. Wood-mouse.