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continuous intermixture with the parent stocks. The first 

 who wished to inquire more closely has, by his observations, 

 been led to results opposed to general opinion. To these ob- 

 servations, presenting apparently the guarantee of authenticity, 

 positive observation should be opposed; and it is requisite 

 that the latter should be specially collected in countries where 

 the Germanic race has intermarried with the Negro race of 

 Western Africa. The investigations which might be made in 

 the French, Spanish, or Portuguese colonies would have no 

 direct application. 



The authors, moreover, we have cited, are far from being 

 the only ones who have denied the fecundity of the Mulattoes 

 in the West Indies. Van Amringe and Hamilton Smith assert, 

 that without a reunion with the parent stocks the Mulattoes 

 would soon become extinct. Day says that Mulattoes are 

 rarely prolific between themselves; and Waitz, somewhat 

 shaken by these testimonies, adds in a note, " The sterility of 

 Mulattoes, when it is complete, may be compared with that 

 fact recognised by Wirgman in plants, that the hybrids of 

 intermediate types between the two parent stocks are sterile, 

 whilst those resembling one or the other species are prolific." 1 

 From these facts and testimonies there seems to result 1. 

 That the Mulattoes of the Germanic and Ethiopian races pos- 

 sess little prolificacy : 2. That they are inferior in this respect 

 to the Mulattoes born by the intercourse of Negro women and 

 men belonging to the more or less dark complexioned Cau- 

 casian races. 



Mulattoes of the latter kind exist in large numbers in the 

 greater part of the Antilles, South America, Central America, 

 Mexico, Mauritius, Bourbon, and Senegal. All these coun- 

 tries have been colonised by the French, Spaniards, or Portu- 

 guese. The Mulattoes born there are fecund in their intermix- 

 ture with the parent stock, as the Mulattoes of Germanic origin ; 

 they are also prolific between themselves, at least in the first 



1 Waitz, loc. cit., p. 205. Van Amringe, Investigation of the Theories of 

 the Natural History of Man. Hamilton Smith, Natural History of the Human 

 Species, 1848. Day, Five Years Residence in the West Indies, vol. i, p. 294 

 1852. F 



