A 



JOURNAL, 



OF 



NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



AND 



THE ARTS. 



FEBRUARY, 1808. 



ARTICLE I. 



Vn Albhwes: by T. S. Traill, M. D. 



To Mr. NICHOLSON. 



JL HE following account of a poor family in this town is Albinoe** 

 transmitted lor insertion in your Journal, if deemed singular 

 enough to entitle it to a place in that valuable miscellany. 

 The history was noted down a few days ago in my house from 

 the words of the mother, who brought with her two of her 

 children, who in all respects resembles the Albinoes of Cha- 

 mouni, so well described by de Saussure in his Voyage Dans 

 les A I pes. 



Robert Edmond and his wife Anne are both natives of Their parentf. 

 Anglesey in North Wales. He has blue eyes and hair almost 

 black; her eyes are blue, and her hair of a light brown. 

 Neither of them have remarkably fair skins, They have 

 been married fourteen years. Their first child, a girl, had 

 blue eyes and brown hair. The second, a' boy, (now before 

 me) has the characteristics of an albino: viz. very fair skin, 

 flaxen hair, and rose-coloured eyes. The third and fourth 

 children were twins, and both boys; cne of thein has blue 

 eyes and dark brown hair; the other was an albino. The for- 

 nier is still alive: the albino lived nine months, though a very 



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