16S 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 species 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 his 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, must cease" "He 

 cannot extend his race, for he has NO race f "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, continued to the fourth genera- 

 tion, from any one stock ; perhaps 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 ca.-e 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 died in 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, leaving 

 three children, one of whom is subject to fits; the eleventh died under 10 years; the twelfth, being a female, married, and 

 h ad 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. 



\ VITAL STATISTICS. 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 even 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. 



