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symmetrical hand ; she has also small feet. She is a perfect 

 woman in every respect, performing all the functions of woman 

 regularly and naturally. 



She is evidently human, and nothing but human. She is quite 

 unlike the mixed African — is she an American Indian? It 

 mriy be here remarked, that her complexion, soft skin, hair, and 

 shape of the head, face, and nose, remind one more of an 

 Asiatic than an American type. Her disposition, too, is mild 

 and playful, her manners gentle and communicative, differing 

 from the sullen, taciturn, and forbidding ways of the Indian. It 

 is well known, that some authorities maintain that the California 

 Indians are of Asiatic origin, — Malays, who have been thrown 

 in some way on the American shore, from the Pacific Islands. 

 The notion also prevails among many of the tribes bordering on 

 the Gulf of California, (among the Ceris, for instance,) that they 

 are of Asiatic origin. This girl seems either of Asiatic origin, 

 or of Asiatic and American Indian mixed. She is no specimen 

 of a degenerate race, but an exceptional specimen, such as 

 occurs, not unfrequently, in all races. Hairy women have lived 

 before her, without any suspicion of brute paternity. The con- 

 formation of her mouth, in so far as it is abnormal, is more 

 likely the result of disease, than a character of a tribe. The 

 causes of these peculiarities must be sought for amongst those 

 which modify the products of conception, and impress various 

 fancied or real animal or vegetable resemblances upon the fcetus 

 in utero ; and which, in some inexplicable way, seem to arrest 

 or modify animal development. 



The girl was present at this meeting of the Society, and 

 was freely and carefully examined. There was nothing 

 remarkable about her, except the abnormal growth of hair, 

 and the morbid condition of the gums and alveolar pro- 

 cesses. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to the girl, and 

 to Mr. Beech, her agent, for the opportunity of examina- 

 tion, and to Mr. Napper, for photographic representations 

 of her. 



