Account of Change of Colour ina Negro. 315 
Henry Moss has all the features common to the 
African race, though not strongly impressed. He 
is forty-two years of age, and five feet six inches 
high. The borders of his face, at the roots of the 
hair on the sinciput and descending by the right 
ear, are, for nearly an inch in breadth, of a perfect 
European complexion. This stripe, somewhat en- 
larged in its dimensions, is continued under the chin, 
and rises on the left cheek to within two inches of 
the ear, where it is intercepted by an irregular 
blotch of negro skin, about an inch broad, which 
detaches it from a corresponding stripe on the left 
side of his face. It passes down the neck of the 
left side about three inches, and is there two inches 
wide. Its margin is irregularly indented, resem- 
bling islands and peninsulas as represented on the 
chart of a sea-coast. The back of the neck, the 
breast, arms, and legs (as far as these could be ex- 
posed with decency in a mixed company) are of a 
clear complexion, interspersed with small specks of 
African colour, not unlike the freckles which ap- 
pear on the skin of a fair woman in summer. The 
African complexion is completely discharged from 
the upper eyelids. There is a small white streak 
under the right eye; and a larger one, nearly half 
an inch broad, with a margin irregularly defined. 
under the left. A white list passes round the 
mouth, shaded by one of his native hue reaching 
nearly to the chin, below which he has a very fair 
