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The Mulattoes of Jamaica have thus the same ethnologic 

 origin as those of Carolina ; and the following remarks from 

 the History of Jamaica, by Long, entirely confirm Nott's 

 opinion. 1 



" The Mulattoes of Jamaica/' says Long, " are generally 

 well proportioned, and the Mulatto women have fine features, 

 and seem to have more of the White than of the Negro in 

 their blood. Some of them have married women of their own 

 colour, but these marriages are generally sterile. They seem 

 in this respect to resemble certain mules, being less capable of 

 producing between themselves than with the Whites or Blacks. 

 Some instances may possibly have occurred, where, upon the 

 intermarriage of two Mulattoes, the woman has borne children, 

 which children have grown to maturity; but I never heard of 

 such an instance. 



" Those Mulattoes of Jamaica, of which I speak, have mar- 

 ried young, have received some education, and are distin- 

 guished by their chaste and regular conduct. The observations 

 made regarding them have a great degree of certainty. They 

 do not breed, though there is nothing to indicate that they 

 would not be prolific by intermarrying either with the Blacks 

 or Whites. 



" In searching for facts contrary to this opinion, it is requi- 

 site to discard the suspicion that the Mulatress has had inter- 

 course with any other man than her Mulatto husband, and 

 there would still remain the question, whether the son of 

 a Mulatto, married to the daughter of two other Mulattoes, is 

 capable of producing and forming a durable race." 



Such a grave fact could not be allowed to pass unchallenged. 

 Professor Waitz, much embarrassed by it, could only oppose to 

 it a passage extracted from a work published in 1845 by 



retired, carrying away the greater portion of their wealth. Cromwell hastened 

 to re-people the island, by transporting to it a number of political convicts. 

 In 1G59, four years after the conquest, there were already 4,500 Europeans 

 and 1,400 Negroes on the island. In 1670, the white population amounted 

 to 7,500, slaves 8,000. It will, then, be observed, that the population of 

 Jamaica descends exclusively from English colonists and Negro slaves. With 

 regard to the Caribs, they have been entirely exterminated by the Spaniards 

 a century before the arrival of the English. 



1 Long (Edward), History of Jamaica, vol. ii, p. 235, London, 1774, cited 

 in the Charleston Medical Journal, vol. vi. 1851. 



