Under other monarchies the male line takes precedence of the female in tracing genealogies, but here the opposite is the case--the female line takes precedence.

Their reason for this is exceedingly sensible, and I recommend it to the aristocracy of Europe: They say it is easy to know who a man's mother was, but, etc., etc.] and the Vice President (the latter a white man,) sat in the pulpit, if I may so term it.
The President is the King's father.

He is an erect, strongly built, massive featured, white-haired, tawny old gentleman of eighty years of age or thereabouts.

He was simply but well dressed, in a blue cloth coat and white vest, and white pantaloons, without spot, dust or blemish upon them.

He bears himself with a calm, stately dignity, and is a man of noble presence.