252 VARIETIES OF ( OLOUR 



ex cjusmodi facinore sperarent '*^ ; aut fcmlnas a brutorum 

 mascuHsf siibactas esse relatum est, sive violent! stiipro id 

 accident, sive sollicitantibus ex libidlne Insanicntibus femi- 

 nist, sive prostituentibus seseex religiosa superstitione § ; 

 nullum tamcn unquam a teste fide digno relatum comperi- 

 mus exemplum, ubi fccunda evaserit ejusmodi copula, hy- 

 bridumque ex hominis cum bestia immani coitu prognatum 

 fuerit." Yet the laws of various countries have directed 

 that the fruit of such unnatural intercourse should be 

 burned, or otherwise destroyed. 



We can only speak, in the human subject, of such hybrids 

 as proceed from copulation of the different varieties of one 

 and the same species, as of a cart-horse and a racer, the 

 green and white canary-birds, &c. These unions have a 

 great effect in changing the colour, conformation, and 

 other properties of the offspring, and are consequently em- 

 ployed with wonderful advantage in improving the breeds of 

 our domestic animals, particularly the horse, sheep, and 

 cattle. 



Children produced from the copulation of different races 

 exhibit the middle (or nearly so) between the two tints of 

 their parents. This law holds good universally; climate 

 not making the smallest difterence : Mulattoes precisely 

 similar are produced from the union of Negroes and Euro- 

 peans, whether in Africa, in the East Indies, in the sugar 



* Hoc fine Persas ischiade laborantes onagras inire Pallas auctor est, in 

 Neuen Nordischt7i Beytragen^^. ii. page 38. 



+ Phillips, speaking of the baboons of Guinea in Churchill's Collection 

 f>f Voyages^ v. vi. p. 211. says, '* Here are a vast number of overgrown large 

 baboons, some as big as a large mastiff dog, which go in droves of fifty and 

 one hundred together, and are very dangerous to be met with, especially by 

 women ; whom 1 have been credibly informed they have often seized npon, 

 ravished, and in that kind abused, one after another, till they have killed 

 them." 



+ Ita feminas Kamtschadalicas quondam cum canibus coivisse Steller 

 refcrt, in Beschreibung von Kamtschatka^ p. 2S9. 



^ Ut Mendciiae femina', cumhiico sacro: dequo singular! ritu videsis uber- 

 riuu! disserentcin D'HancArville in Rcchcrchcs sur VOrigine dts Arts de 

 la Giecc^ t. i- p. 320. 



