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 And to help the memory of the student are adjoined these six hexameters, which I deem of not such pure and classical Latinity as the former ones, but which are, nathless, well adapted to their purpose:—

Binis ordinibus tubuli ponantur: et Alter

Est Simplex; fit diversis è partibus Alter.

In primis Simplex classis disjungitur æque,

Fictilis è terrâ, sequitur tum ligneus ordo.

OBSTRoPOLous alio, FLaBbERgAST atque secundo

Pertinet. Cui legat, tubulum succendere fas est.

Further, by the way of comment upon the synopsis, it is to be observed that in the complex order the various subdivisions of the simple order are to be understood, with such obvious differences as will be apparent to all. For example, china pipes do not admit of accidental colour since they are already percocti; also in a hookah essential colour may coexist in two parts—in the vase for