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plied ; but since erroneous opinions have been formed, 
and published, 1 wish the facts I have stated may be 
ascertained by the testimony of practical men. Mr. 
Livingston, whose zeal, talents and instructive intel. 
ligence in general, I highly respect, has unwittingly, 
degraded the whole dynasty of the broad-tails, stock and 
branch, from their rank in the scale of created beings ; 
though they have, from the beginning of time, had 
undisputed possession of two quarters of the globe, 
and a part of the third; to wit, of Asia, Africa, and 
part of Europe. I have endeavoured to introduce some 
of them, to the acquaintance of those who inhabit the 
fourth quarter of the world. Mr. Livingston would 
have excepted, had he been acquainted with it, this 
branch of the family ; and would have been among the 
first to welcome it to this place of refuge; from the 
disgraceful society of its idlegitimate and unnatural 
African collateral relations: for such those must be, to 
whom his description applies. * 
* He Nuge in Seria ducunt: however trifling these 
things may be in themselves, they lead to serious con- 
sequences ; they revive, or create and foster, unwarrant- 
able prejudices. When I sent the ram to Lancaster county, 
the Germans, there, would not, at first permit any con- 
nection with their ewes. General Hand was obliged ‘to 
buy thirty or forty ewes, to set an example. The Ger- 
mans considered it an unnatural intercourse—* verknii- 
pijung unnatirliche ;’—and they stiled Su/tan, or Caramelli, 
an outlandish-mongrel-brute ;— auslindisches unverniinj/- 
tages Maul-thier.”” But when the Philadelphia butchers 
sought for the lambs, and good prices were given for them 
and the wool, they altered their opinions ; and the strangeg 
