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child-bed, with her second child. The middle one is 

 now alive in health, and has issue, as the eldest had, by 

 a black man, which issue was black. They are uncom- 

 monly shrewd, quick in their apprehensions and in re- 

 ply. Their eyes are in a perpetual tremulous vibra- 

 tion, very weak, and much affected by the sun : but 

 they see much better in the night than we do. They 

 are the property of Col. Skijnvorth, of Cumberland. 

 The fourth is a negro woman, whose ])arents came 

 from Guinea, and had three other children, who were 

 of their own colour. She is freckled, her eye-sight so 

 weak that she is obliged to wear a bonnet in the sum- 

 mer ; but it is better in the night than day. She had 

 an Albino child by a black man. It died at the age of a 

 few weeks. These were the property of Col. Carter, 

 of Albemarle. A sixth instance is a woman of the pro- 

 perty of Mr Butler, near Petersburg. She is stout and 

 robust, has issue a daughter, jet black, by a black man. 

 I am not informed as to lier eye-sight. The seventh 

 instance is of a male belonging to a Mr Lee of Cum- 

 berland. His eyes are trenmlous and weak. He is tall 

 of stature, and now advanced in years. He is the only 

 male of the Albinos which have come within my infor- 

 mation. Whatever be the cause of the disease in the 

 skin, or in its colouring matter, which produces this 

 change, it seems more incident to the female than male 

 sex. To these I may add the mention of a negro man 

 within my own knowledge, born black, and of black 

 parents; on whose chin, when a boy, a white spot ap- 

 peared. This continued to increase till he became a 

 man, by which time it had extended over his chin, lips, 

 one cheek, the under jaw, and neck on that side. It is 

 of the Albino white, without any mixture of red, and 

 has for several years been stationary. He is robust and 

 healthy, and the change of colour was not accompani- 

 ed with any sensil)lc disease, either general or tojncal. 



Of our fish and insects there has been nothing like a 

 full description or collection. More of them are de- 

 scribed in Catesby than in any other work. Many also 

 are to be found in Sir Hans Sloane's Jamacia, as being 



