I46 Obfervatlons on tht Negroes. 



lofophy on a negro who had fhewn himfelf to advantage 

 not only as a writer, but as a teacher, and who afterwards 

 came to Berlin as a counfellor of ftate to his Pruffian ma- 

 jetty. I have now before me two treatifes written by him*, 

 one of which, in particular, difplays extenfive and well-di- 

 gefted reading of the beft phyfiological works of the time. 

 Of the uncommon knowledge which many neoroes have had 

 in the practice of medicine, very favourable teflimony has 

 been given by Boerhaave and De Haen, who were certainly 

 competent judges ; and the found ikill and delicate expert- 

 nefs of the Yverdun accoucheufe are, as already faid, cele- 

 brated throughout the whole neighbourhood. 



To conclude, the Academy of Sciences at Paris had among 

 the number of its correfpondents M. Liflet a negro, in the 

 Ifle of France, who excelled in making accurate meteorolo-* 



* One of them i» entitled : Differ t. inaug. pbilofophica de httrnantt 

 mentis etira&iirt, Jive Jaifionis ac facultalis in mente bumana aifcntla, el 

 earttm in corpore noftro organico ac vivo prafentia, quarn Prsef. D. 

 Mart. Gotth. Loeschero publice defendit autlor Ant. Gun.. 

 Amo, Guinea-Afer, Phil, et A. A. L.L. Mag. et J. V. C. Witteberga 

 1734, m. Apr. The title of the other is : Difp. pbilofophica, continent 

 ieieam dijiinelam eorum qua comprtunt vel menti vel corpori nqflro vivt 

 tt organico, quarn Praftde M. Ant. Guil. Amo, Guinea- Afro, d. 29. 

 Mail 173 4> defendit Jo. Theodos, Meiner Rochliz-Mifnie. Philof. 

 «t J. V. Cultor. In an account of Arao's life, printed on this occafion in 

 name of the Academic Council, it is faid, among other things refpe&ing 

 his talents : " Honorem, meritis ingenii partufn, infigni probitatis, induf- 

 trize, cruditionis, quarn publicis privatifquc excrcitationibus declaravit, 

 Jaude auxit — Compluribus philofophiam domi tradidit excuffis tarn vete- 

 ruin, quarn novorum, placitis, optima quaeque felegit, felefta enucleate 

 ac clilucide interpreiatus eft.'' And the prefident, in defending the firft 

 mentioned treatife, fays exprefsly, in the annexed congratulation to Amo, 

 " Tuum potiffimum cminetingenium fcliciHimum— utpote qui iftius feli- 

 vitatem ac praEllantism, eruditionis ac doclrinx foliditatem ac cloguntiam, 

 multis fpecimimbus hac-lenUs in nollia etiam academia magnocum ap- 

 plaufu omnibus bonis, et in praefenti differtatipne egregic comprubsfti. 

 Reddo tibi illam proprio marte eleganter ac erudiie elaboiatam, inte- 

 giam adhuc et plane immutatam, ut vis. ingenii tui eo magis exinde 

 flucefcat, 



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