of each little rivulet; but, like all those whose gains

which, being divided equally among the thirty kings, give to every

one a reign of twenty-one years and a half very near. Sixty-three

kings of France have sat upon the throne; these have, one with

another, reigned about twenty years each. This is the usual course

of Nature. The ancients, therefore, were mistaken when they

supposed the durations in general of reigns to equal that of

generations. They, therefore, allowed too great a number of years,

and consequently some years must be subtracted from their

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