MAMMALIA — MAN. 59 



approached the fire, however, there was a slight tinge of red appeared in 

 her cheeks. Her head was well covered with wool of aboij^t an inch and a 

 half in length. It was harsh, thick, and frizzled; it was white at the roots, 

 and reddish at the extremity. The eyebrows were just marked by a light 

 white down, and the eyelashes were rather more apparent. Her eyes ap- 

 peared of a dull blue. This white negress endured the full light of the sun 

 without winking, or any apparent inconvenience. She was, what is called, 

 short-sighted : but she could distinguish the smallest objects at two or three 

 inches from her eyes. But the most singular circumstance respecting her 

 eyes, was a continual motion, or oscillation, by which they alternately 

 turned from and towards each other ; and this motion she was not able 

 to stop. 



Her teeth were well arranged, and finely enamelled ; there was no disa- 

 greeable smell about her, nor any oiliness upon the skin, as is often the 

 case with common negroes. Her hands were large but well formed, and 

 were covered with wrinkles, like those of an old person. Her feet and her 

 ancles were also wrinkled. Her parents produced only this girl white; the 

 rest of their children were all perfect negroes. 



It has been said that these white negroes, if united with blacks, would 

 produce a pied race ; but however this be, it is certain that pied or spotted 

 negroes are not uncommon. It arises evidently from some defective organi- 

 zation in the skin ; and we have instances even in this climate of a similar 

 deviation from the ordinary course of nature. 



The Albinoes are, amoug the whites, that which the Blafards, as Buffon 

 denominates them, are among the blacks. This name was originally given 

 by the Portuguese to Moors who were born white, and has since been 

 appropriated to similar individuals in our own race. The best account 

 which has yet appeared of Albinoes is the following, which was sent by Dr 

 Traill, of Liverpool, to Nicholson's Journal. 



"Robert Edmond and his wife Anne are both natives of Anglesey, in 

 North Wales. He has blue eyes, and hair almost black ; her eyes are blue, 

 and her hair of a light brown. Neither of them have remarkably fair skins. 

 They have been married fourteen years. Their first child, a girl, had blue 

 eyes and brown hair. The second, a boy, (now before me,) has the charac- 

 teristics of an Albino; viz: very fair skin, flaxen hair, and rose-colored eyes. 

 The third and fourth children were twins, and both boys ; one of them has 

 blue eyes and dark brown hair ; the other was an Albino. The former is 

 still alive : the Albino lived nine months, though a very puny child. The 

 fifth child, a girl, had blue eyes and brown hair. The sLxth, and last now 

 here, is a perfect Albino. 



" The oldest of these Albinoes is now nine years of age, of a delicate 

 constitution, slender, but well formed both in person and in features ; his 

 appetite has always been bad ; he frequently complains of a dull pain in his 

 forehead ; his skin is exceedingly fair ; his hair flaxen and soft ; his cheeks 



