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here about twenty years ego, at least to the best of my recol- 

 lection, and more of the yellow tinge of raw silk. She does 

 not see better in the dark than other people, but on the con- 

 trary not so well as most. She is a native of Essex, and [ 

 apprehend between twenty and thirty years old; perfectly 

 well shaped, about the middle size, and says she has always 

 been very healthy, which her appearance does not any way 

 contradict, in her understanding she seems by no means 

 deficient. 



She informs me, that her mother's first child, a girl, is also A second in- 

 an albiness like herself; that she was the third child; and <uaace * 

 that the fifth, a boy, is an albino. The two intermediate 

 children had nothing remarkable. Her mother had never 

 any peculiar longing, ailment, or fright, she added, during 

 either of her pregnancies. 



Another instance of a female in my own knowledge is the A third, 

 eldest daughter of a respectable tradesman in Lonoon, about 

 three and twenty, who has a brother an albino, about ten 

 years younger than herself. She was the first child of her 

 parents, the boy the last, and none of the intermediate chil- 

 dren had any thing peculiar in their appearance. 



I am farther informed, that two albinesses, both young, are Two more, 

 now exhibiting about the country with their brother, who is 

 an albino. They are said to be natives of Ireland, but I 

 have not been able to get auy certain information respecting 

 them. 



I likewise remember an albiness, perhaps eight or nine A sixth, 

 years old, being introduced one evening to the society at 

 Guy's Hospital about twenty years ago ; and had supposed 

 it might be the same person as is now to be seen at Spring 

 Gardens: but she assures me, that neither she nor her sister 

 had ever been shown at Guy's, or any other place, till she 

 began to be exhibited in public a few years ago. Thus there 

 would appear to have been no less than six females of this 

 description born in the United Kingdom within these thirty 

 years: and if none have been noticed by writers, it is pro- 

 bably to be ascribed to the greater care, with which women 

 endeavour to conceal any thing they would consider as a 

 personal blemish, or to shun the view of strangers, when 



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