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Wild Hog, when in their native state ; and the Dog and the Wolf, the Dog and the Fox, 

 and the Hare and the Rabbit, even when domesticated. At other times the antipathy is 

 partially subdued in a few instances out of many, by association, as in the rare cases of 

 marriages between a white person and a negro. And here every one of us must have 

 been witness of the almost universal natural feeling of abhorrence of the community 

 disgraced by such an outrage ; often followed by an outbreak. That this is the effect of 

 the natural feeling we have described, we rely upon Professor Samuel G. Morton, who 

 tells us that it is not only proverbial among all European nations, but is evinced by 

 Africans, in their own country, and upon Duncan, who, in his travels in Western Africa, 

 relates several instances of the negresses running aA T ay in apparent fright and disgust at 

 the sight of a white man. At other times this natural abhorrence is overcome either by 

 domestication alone, or by domestication aided by the artifices of man, as in the case with 

 the Jackass and the Mare. 



In like manner nature makes known her non-conformity to this mixture in various ways. 



Sometimes the issue is absolutely sterile. At others the product is so mal-conformed 

 that it cannot survive the period of lactation, as was the case with both the foals of Mr. 

 Kilby's Mule. Now the progeny is capable of being continued but only by new drafts 

 or supplies from the pure breeds from which it sprung; as was the issue of the Sheep and 

 the Goat, mentioned by Bellchambers. Then the progeny multiply among themselves for 

 two or three generations only ; and even during that time show no constancy of character, 

 as mentioned by Van Amringe, in Nat. Hist, of Man, (p. 429,) who says: "We have 

 devoted much attention to this subject, have examined a number of mulatto families, and 

 are satisfied that the children seldom exhibit the medium color of their parents." And, in a 



from this same heifer several calves, and then, that the experiment might be perfect, I put one of them to the Buffalo Bull, 

 and she brought me a Bull Calf, which I raised to be a very fine, large animal perhaps the only one to be met within the world, 

 of this blood, viz : a | fa Q of common blood. 



" After making these experiments I have left them to propagate their blood themselves, so that I have only had a few 

 half-breeds and they always prove the same even by a Buffalo Bull." 



Upon this statement of Mr. Wickliffe's we crave attention to the following comments: 



1st. That his herd, which now numbers ten or twelve, commenced thirty years ago, with two pure female Buffaloes ; yet 

 he endeavored, as much as lie could, to cross them with his common cattle. 



2d. He found the tame or common Bull unwilling to copulate with the female Buffalo. 



3d. One half-breed heifer produced a Bull Calf but he was castrated and killed, and so ended that experiment. 



4th. From the same heifer he bred several Calves, one of which was put to a Buffalo Bull, which produced a Bull Calf which 

 was raised, and here this experiment ended. It stands thus: 



1. 

 Buffalo Bull "I 2. 



and > A Female half breed) 3. 



Common Cow. ] and V A Bull Calf. 



A Buffalo Bull. ) 



Now the reader will remark that No. 1, being a cross of two species the product was No. 2, a hybrid half-breed. But this 

 hybrid half-breed was not coupled with another of the same grade, but was bred towards one of the original stock or parents, 

 viz : a Buffalo Bull. 



Mr. Wickliffe, therefore, very properly comes to the following conclusions, viz : that his experiments were not satisfactory 

 evidence that a half Buffalo will produce again; but only that a half-breed heifer will be productive from breeding towards 

 either original race. 



