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approached the fire, however, there was a slight tinge of red appeared in 
her cheeks. Her head was well covered with wool of about an inch anda 
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, among 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 accoun 
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 sixth, 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 exce2dingly fair; his hair flaxen and soft; his cheeks 
