4) Adcoimt of Henry Moss, bV, 



black negro. His own mother was born in the same 

 State, and was a dark mulatto. His own father's mother 

 was an Indian woman, but he is ignorant to what tribe, 

 or nation, she belonged. His mother's mother was an 

 Irish woman*. 



Moss has the negro physiognomy, or aspect. He 

 has ihefrojis drevis, or short forehead ; the 7iasus qiias- 

 satus, and the tibi^ incurvce, so common among the 

 blacks. He has, likewise, the heavy eye of the blacks, 

 and their crisped hair, or wool, upon his head. I am 

 not certain, that he appears to be much older than he 

 really is, though this is thought to be the case by some 

 who have attentively examined him. But of this I am 

 certain, that independently on the varied colour of his 

 face, a peculiar gloom pervades his countenance. It 

 may be doubted, whether this is natural to him. For 

 he tells me, that his thoughts are chiefly of the serious 

 kind, and that of late, that is (to use something like his 

 own language), since Providence began to work the mi- 

 racle, his reflections run much upon the future. This 

 is natural indeed. If the philosopher contemplates with 

 astonishment such a change as this, it must appear mi- 

 raculous in the sight of this poor, ignorant man, who 

 knows but little of the immense agency of physical 

 causes, and in every thing that is wonderful, and to him 

 inexplicable, thinks he perceives the immediate interfer- 

 ence of a God. I da not wonder that his reflections are 

 of a serious nature. I even suspect that had a philoso- 

 pher, a physician, experienced in his own person the rc- 



* See note A, at tlic end of iliis arliclt. 



