IN THE HUMAN SPECIES. 259 



Thus It is possible that an African Albiness and an Euro- 

 pean may produce together a true Mulatto*; the offspring 

 receiving its dark tint through the mother, although she has 

 it not herself. 



The offspring of a black and white may be either black or 

 white, instead of being mixed ; and in some rare cases It 

 has been spotted. 



A black man married a white woman in York : In due 

 course of time she had a child that was entirely black, and 

 very much like the father in colour and features, without 

 the least participation in the features or colour of the mother. 

 A negro was married in London to a white woman, who 

 afterwards had a daughter as fair as any one born of white 

 parents, and like the mother in features, but her right but- 

 tock and thigh were as black as the skin of the father. Two 

 Negro slaves having married in Virginia, the woman brought 

 forth a white girl. The husband's father was white, his 

 grandfather and grandmother black : and In every family 

 related to them there had always been a white child f. 



A Negress had twins by an Englishman : one was per- 

 fectly black, with short, woolly, curled hair ; the other was 

 light with long hair J, 



Dr. WiNTERBOTTOM says, that in a family of six persons, 

 which he knew, one half was almost as light-coloured as 

 Mulattoes, while the other was jet black. The father was a 

 deep black, the mother a Mulatto §. 



Variations of colour, analagous to those just enumerated, 

 are of daily occurrence among animals, as In the production 

 of black sheep, cats, horses, foxes, &c. White sheep may 

 produce black lambs; and gray rabbits may bring forth 

 either white (leucssthloplc) or black ones. The production 

 of leucaethloplc animals from those of the ordinary colour 

 is very common. In the beaver, which is a wild animal, 



* SxEDMAN'sSwrmflm, ii. 260. 



+ These instances are related by Dr. Parsons in the Philos. Transact. 

 V. 35 ; and seem to be of unquestionable authenticity. 

 X White on the regular Gradation, p. 122. 

 § On the Native /Africans, i. 1«8. 



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