LINEAL DESCENT.
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1t is, at first view, astonishing, says Blacks
stone, to consider the number of Lineal An
cestors which every man has within no very
great number of degrees: and SO many diff
ferent bloeds is a man said TO contain in his
his veins as he has lineal ancestors. OF these
he hath f7vo in the first ascending degree,
his own parents; he hath four in the second,
the parents of his father and the parents OF
his mot .er; he hath eight in the third, the
parents of his two grandfathers and two
grandmothers. and BY the same rule Of
progression, he hath an hundred and t7penty-
eight in the seventh, thousand and tzven-
IT. four in the tenth, and at the twentieth de-
gree, or the distance of twenty generation,
every man hath above million of an
cestors, as common arithmetic will demon
strate.