PYE NEGRO GIRL ann MULATTO BOY. 395° 
of the legs there is a light white down, longer and thicker 
than children commonly have at this age. 
Such is the natural hiftory of thofe two extraordinary 
children; but what caufes have produced thofe furprifing 
phenomena and alteration of the natural colour of their 
fkin, are left for others to inveftigate and explain. 
Monf. le Vallois relates that the mother of Adelaide, 
whilft pregnant with her, was delighted in laying out all 
night in the open air, and contemplating the ftars and 
planets, and that the great grandmother of Jean Pierre (a 
white lady) during the time of her being with child of her 
daughter, his grandmother by the father’s fide, was fright- 
ened on having fome milk fpilled upon her. Whether 
this will account for her daughter and grandchildren be- 
ing marked in the manner related, and for the {pots ob~ 
ferved on the mulatto boy defcending to him; or whether 
the ftrong impreflion made upon the mother of Adelaide, 
by the nightly view of the ftars and planetary fyftem, may 
be confidered as the caufe of the very extraordinary ap- 
pearances in that girl, every one will determine for them- 
felves; there being many who difpute childrens being ever 
marked by the fears, longings, or impreflions made by 
mothers on the bodies of their children, at a certain time 
of pregnancy; for which they endeavour to account in 
different ways; whilft others who have known a variety 
of children born. with. different marks on them, (which 
have fallen under their particular notice) are equally con~ 
fident of thofe marks proceeding from the caufes alledged.. 
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