34 INTERMIXTURE OF CERTAIN RACES 



the light-haired race, with grey or blue eyes, a white skin; and 

 the brown races, with a deeper complexion and brown or black 

 hair. The first occupy Northern Europe ; the second, South- 

 ern Europe. There is thus a little less disparity, and a little 

 more affinity between the Europeans of the South and the 

 Negroes, than between the latter and the Northern Europeans, 

 so that when we hear that intermixture succeeds better in the 

 first than in the second case, it should not surprise us. But 

 South Carolina, where the Mulattoes get on so indifferently, has 

 been colonised by the Anglo-Saxons ; whilst the shores of the 

 Gulf of Mexico, where the Mulattoes are more prospering, have 

 been colonised by the French (Louisiana) and by the Spaniards 

 (Florida) . Such is the explanation offered by Dr. Nott. Still 

 in maintaining his conclusions on the issues of Negro women, 

 and men of the Germanic race, he thinks that they are not appli- 

 cable to the Mulattoes whose parents belong to a Caucasian 

 race more or less dark in complexion. Analogous differences 

 are often observed in animals in such crossings when they are 

 placed in connections with species more or less approximate. 

 Before, however, accepting Dr. Nott's explanation, it may be 

 as well to examine whether the fact may not be differently ex- 

 plained. 



South Carolina, comprised between 32 and 35 N. lat., is 

 situated beyond the zone where the African Negroes live: New 

 Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola are situated nearer the tropics, 

 between the 30 and 31, and we find in Africa, in Northern 

 Sahara, south of Algiers, some tribes of Negroes who have lived 

 in that latitude from time immemorial. Though the climate 

 does not altogether depend on latitude, it may be readily be- 

 lieved that the Negroes become sooner acclimated upon the 

 shores of the Gulf of Mexico than in the more northern regions. 

 But it is known that men transplanted into climates differing 

 much from that in which their race thrives may, by this simple 

 fact, greatly lose their fecundity. It is not always so, but con- 

 sidering that it does happen, we have a right to ask whether 

 the difference pointed out by Dr. Nott between the Mulattoes 

 of South Carolina, and those of the region of the Gulf may 

 not be owing to this cause. 



