BOOK II. CHAP. XIII. 26r 



Mf.diate or Stationary, neither advancing nor receding, 



Quatcion, = Tcrccrou.- 

 Tcntc-cncl-ajie. 



Retrograde. 



Mulatto, = Terccron. Ncgroc, = Mulatci. Indian, = Mulatta. Ncgioc, zr Indian. 



Saltatras. Sambo de l __vr Mcuize. S;imlio dc 1 _ Sambo dc 



Mulaita, |--^'-S"'e- ji.a;.,,,^ ]- Mulatto. 



Negroe. Givcro [o]. 



In the SpaniHi colonics, it is accounted moft creditable to mend' 

 tlie breed by afcending or growing whiter ; infomuch that a Qua- 

 teron will hardly keep company with a Mulatto ; and a Mcftize 

 values himfelf very highly in comparifon with a Sambo. The 

 Giveros lie under the imputation of having the worft inclinations 

 and principles; and, if the cafl is known, they arc banifhed. 

 Thefe diflindlions, however, do not prevail in Jamaica; for here . 

 the Terceron is confounded with the Quatcron ; and the laws per- 

 mit all, that are above three degrees removed in lineal defcent from / 

 the Negro anceftor, to vote at ele^flions, and enjoy all the privileges / 

 and immunities of his majcfty's white fubjeds of the ifland. The' 

 Dutch, I am informed, tranfcend the Spaniards very far in their 

 refinement of thefe complexions. They add drops of pure water 

 to a fingle drop of dufky liquor, until it becomes tolerably pel- 

 lucid. But this needs the appofition of fuch a multitude of drops, 

 that, to apply the experiment by analogy to the human race, 

 twenty or thirty generations, perhaps, would hardly be fufficient to 

 difchargc the (lain. 



The native white men, or Creoles, of Jamaica are in gcncraltall j^ 

 and wcU-fhaped ; and fome of them rather incHncd to corpulence. 

 Their cheeks are remarkably higli -boned, and the {bckets of their 

 eyes deeper than is commonly obferved among the natives of Eng- 

 land ; by this conformation, they are guarded from- thofc ill cfFeds 

 which an almoft continual ftrong, glare of fun-fliine might other- 

 wife produce. Their fight is keen and penetrating; which rentiers 

 them excellent markfmen : a light-grey, and black, or deep hazel, 

 are the more common colours of the pupil. The eiYeS: of climate 

 is not only remarkable in the Hruclure of their eyes, but likcwifd 



[o] Perhaps from G'Jiro, a butcher, 



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