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as Lyellj Reiset^ Reclus, in a condition to compare large num- 

 bers of recently imported African Negroes witli as many 

 Creole Negroes, as since 1808 no more slaves have been im- 

 ported into America, so tbat the observations were only made 

 forty years after the above period ? And finally, what guaran- 

 tee have these gentlemen for the pure descent of these Negroes? 

 We know the brutality of the slaveholders, who not only claim 

 the jus primce noctis, but also the first child, and who with de- 

 testable cruelty,* and with an utter disregard of every human 

 feeling, recross such bastards with the black race and keep 

 them in slavery. 



The American Anglo-Saxons, or Yankees, are also cited as 

 an instance of change of characters. " Already, after the 

 second generation,^^ says Pruner-Bey in Quatrefages, " the 

 Yankee presents features of the Indian type. At a later 

 period, the glandular system is reduced to the minimum of its 

 normal development. The skin becomes dry like leather, the 

 colour of the cheeks is lost, and is in males replaced by a loamy 

 tint, and in females by a sallow paleness. The head becomes 

 smaller and rounder, and is covered with stifi" dark hair ; the 

 neck becomes longer, and there is a greater development of 

 the cheek bones and the masseters. The temporal fossae 

 become deeper, the jaw bones more massive, the eyes lie in 

 deep approximated sockets. The iris is dark, the glance is 

 piercing and wild. The long bones, especially in the superior 

 extremities, are lengthened, so that the gloves manufactured in 

 England and France for the American market are of a particu- 

 lar make with very long fingers. The female pelvis approaches 

 that of the male." " America," adds Quatrefages, " has thus 

 altered the Anglo-Saxon type, and produced from the English 

 race a new white race which might be called the Yankee race." 



We have nothing to say against this ; for we also believe that 

 America dries up the skin and reduces the fat, — an effect 

 to which all the above differences might be reduced. That 

 the head becomes smaller, we utterly deny ; the exact cranial 



* The author evidently writes in entire ignorance of the real facts, and 

 the credulity which he has here shown in believing the stories put forward 

 by the " philanthi-opists" of Exeter Hall, and the absurd fictions of Mrs. 

 Beecher Stowe, is the more remarkable, as Prof. Vogt is not given to believe 

 without some reliable evidence. — Editor. 



