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to be fair, but we were unable to see them, and could 

 not judge of their fairness. 



In a doorway were three girls, evidently sisters. 

 Two were blue-eyed with flaxen hair, one with black 

 eyes, olive-brown skin, and black hair. These 

 extremes in one family are the rule in Southern Spain. 

 I have only once or twice seen a family all fair chil- 

 dren, or a family of all dark. The manager of the 

 hotel at Alhambra was a man with dark hair and dark 

 eyes, but of fairish complexion ; he had a very dark 

 Arab-type wife, yet their two children, a girl of 

 four years and a boy of three years, had golden hair 

 and light-blue eyes. 



The Negro crop of tight woolly curls so often 

 observed in Malaga was not once seen in the town 

 of Granada. Intercrossing with Cubans is probably 

 the explanation of its frequent occurrence in the 

 seaport town. 



Referring to the observations made up to the 

 present, I am inclined to believe that the grey eye is 

 intermediate, and will breed both blue eyes and brown 

 eyes, and that probably of these latter the true-blue 

 breed pure. The percentage of dark over fair persons 

 in Granada is considerably higher than in the previous 

 towns visited in Southern Spain, such as Malaga and 

 Algeciras. This is more particularly true of the 

 Albaicin or Arab quarter in Granada, where the Moors 

 from Baeza took refuge, when that city fell into 

 Catholic hands, in 1227. 



The Province of Seville. 



In the city of Seville several reckonings were made 



