168 TRICHOLOGIA MAMMALIUM; 
defect, caused by this very amalgamation, runs out entirely, and is thus eventually 
extinguished. * 
Every practising physician has had occasion to remark how much more mulattoes are 
liable to scrofulous and phthisical diseases, and similar wasting complaints, than either the 
whites or blacks from whom they are descended;+ and we have no doubt but that a 
similar law holds in regard to Sheep when speczes are amalgamated. Now this is destructive 
to the permanency of stock, which it is one great object of the American farmer to ensure. 
It little suits hes purpose, after having paid for a high-priced ram, to have all his hopes of 
a stock blasted by an unwise crossing with a common country ewe. 
It is true, that by a repetition of the same causes, that is to say, by similar amalga- 
mations, new hybrids may sometimes be continually produced, as in the cases of mulattoes 
and mules; but they, in their turn, are subject to the same law of destruction, and 
are doomed to the same premature decay and demolition. ‘With the cessation of the 
supply of European blood (says Dr. Knox) the mulatto, of all shades, mst cease.” ‘He 
cannot extend his race, for he has No race ;” ‘‘there is no place for him in nature.” And 
Col. Smith (in Nat. Hist. of Man, p. 119,) says: ‘“ We doubt exceedingly if a mulatto 
family does exist, or could exist, in any part of the tropics, conténued to the fourth genera- 
tion, from any one stock; yerhaps there is not one, even in five generations of positive 
mulattoes, but that all actually require, for ‘continuity at least, a long previous succession 
of foreign influences, of white, or negro, or mestise, or quadroon, or sambo, or native 
Indian, or Malay blood, before the sinew and substance of a durable, intermediate race 
can be reared.” ‘Then how can the American Sheep breeder reasonably expect, by cross- 
ing a Saxon ram with a common country ewe, to obtain a permanent stock of Merino 
*The following case came within our own observation: An English gentleman, stout and healthy, went to one of the West 
India Islands, where he had a son by a tetra-mulattin. He brought him to the United States, where he was brought up and 
educated. His skin was white, and he showed no indications of negro blood except that his black hair was slightly frizzled. When 
quite young he had an illegitimate child, by a white girl, which diedin infancy. He was afterwards thrice married, and had 
26 children. By his first wife he had three children,—two of them died in infancy, the third lived to about 40 years of age. 
By his second wife he had three children—one died in infancy, one lived to full age and died unmarried, and the third lived 
to full age, married and had children. By his third wife, who was young and healthy, he had 16 children—eight of whom 
died in infancy, and a ninth died of consumption just after he attained his age; a tenth, under 30, of consumption, leaying 
three children, one of whom is subject to fits; the eleventh died under 10 years; the twelfth, being a female, married, and 
had three children, one of whom died in infancy, and another is deformed ; the thirteenth, being a female, and always weakly, 
married and had five children—three of whom died in infancy, and two alive are very delicate ; the fourteenth and fifteenth 
are females, unmarried; and the sixteenth a male, who is married, and has three children. 
} Viran Sratistics.—Dr. Pendleton, of Georgia, has published a paper on the vital statistics of Hancock county, in that 
State. By his tables we learn, that during the last ten years, the increase of the white population has been 13.4 per cent., 
while that of the black has been 23.6 per cent. In the pure races the males numerically preponderate, while, in the mongrel 
race of mulattoes, the females are largely in the ascendant; which may possibly be explained on the theory that the mothers 
being black, and the fathers white, in most cases, the former determine the sex. It is also here shown that the mulatto is 
much shorter lived than either of the unmixed races. The comparative salubrity of the climate of Georgia is shown, by a 
tabular exhibit, to be vastly greater than any other portion of our country, and eyen superior to that of the rural districts of 
England, and this, notwithstanding the fact that the blacks greatly outnumber the whites, while the former are much more 
short lived than the latter. The average mortality of New York, for seven years, from 1841 to 1848, is stated at 2.87 per 
cent., while that of six counties in Georgia, for the last year, was only 1.51 per cent. The fallacy, however, is apparent in 
comparing a country population in the interior, with a city containing half a million of people, subject to importation of 
ship-fever, small-pox, and other epidemics, from which much of our mortality is derived. 
