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Before concluding, we may mention here the grada- 

 tions through which intermixtures of the typical stocks 

 are distinguished in the West India Islands. The off- 

 spring of a black and a white parent is denominated a 

 Mulatto ; a black and a mulatto produce a Sambo ; a 

 black and a sambo a Mungroo ; and a black and a 

 mungroo is again completely black. But, in this case, 

 the disturbance in the intellectual qualities is not again 

 obliterated ; it remains, to a considerable extent, of a 

 more developed character than in a true Negro of 

 unmixed origin. A mulatto, however, and a white, 

 generate a Quartroon ; a quartroon and a white a 

 Mestie ; and a mestie and white a complete white, 

 having already, before the emancipation of the slaves 

 in all our colonies, the legal rights of a white man of 

 pure blood. Yet this class of persons still, in general, 

 have black and curly hair; the nails on the fingers 

 remain.darker and ill shaped ; the feet are indifferently 

 formed ; and, in their propensities, much of the Negro 

 origin continues to be traced. The Spaniards carry 

 their distinctions to a seventh generation. 



As the early history of the real Ethiopic nations is 

 better known by means of the connection and hybridal 

 descent they drew from the Caucasian races, we shall 

 enter into more detail respecting their primaeval filia- 

 tions and migratory movements, when treating of the 

 bearded tribes which first invaded India, and pursued, 

 subdued, and absorbed the Negro population in South 

 Eastern and South Western Asia, and Northern Africa ; 



