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t>ften that few curious perfoiis arc ignorant of it. In the 

 town of North-lieinjiflcad, fonictliing of the fame kind is 

 now to be feen. A young negro, named Maurice, aged 25 

 years, began, about feven years ago, to lole his native colour. 

 A white fpot appeared on the right {\Ci,i:, of liis belly, whieh 13 

 now about as large as the palms of two hands. Anotticr 

 white fpot has appeared on his breaft, and feveral snore on 

 his arms and other parts ; and the (Itble cloud is plainly dif- 

 appearlugon his ftioulder. The ikin of thefe fair ("pots is noi 

 furpalfed by the European complexion. His general health 

 is and has been ffood : and he has fulfcred no fealdins: ulcer- 

 ation, fcabbinefs, or other local difeafe. llie change is not 

 the dead white of the Albinos^ but is a good wholefome car- 

 nation hue. Such an alteration of colour as this, militates 

 powerfidly againft the opinion adopie^l by ibme modern phi- 

 lofopherg, that the negroes are a different /J^^^zV^ of the human 

 race from the whites, and tends llrongly to corroborate tiie 

 probability of the derivation of all the varietus of mankiiid 

 from a fingle pair. Fa6ls of this kind are of great value to 

 the zoologift. How additionally fingular would it be, if in- 

 flances of the fpontaneous difappearance of this fable mark 

 of diftin^lion between (laves and their mafters were to be- 

 come frequent ! They would then be no Icfs important to 

 the moraliit and political economilh 



LOCUSTS. 



The followino; obfervations on locufls, made, in the vear 

 1715, by the Rev. Andrew Sandel *, then rc<?Lor of the 

 Swedifh church in Philadelphia, are left on the records of 

 the faid church, in the Swedifii language : — " In the month 

 of May a peculiar kind of grafshoppers or flies, called bv the 

 Englifli locujh, ilfued from the earth. They came up every 

 where, even on the hard roails. Thev were enabled to pierce 

 the earth by means of a (hell that covered the whole body, 

 even the mouth and feet. Having iffued from the earth, they 

 crept out of their fliells, flew about, placed themfelves every 

 where on the trees, and made a peculiar noife. As they 



' * This is the man whom Llnnaeos quotes ( 1 Amcenitat. Acackm.) in his 

 Jbyporhefis of fever, as affirming the cc-ex'lt-.nce ef inttrrn'^ulng fevsrs and 

 diy^Hinctoui Juih in Pcnnlylvaniii. 



were 



