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tinkers. These predilections must therefore depend on modi- 

 fications of the brain. 



That *.he volume of brain is in relation to the intellectual 

 faculties, is clearly proved by Dr. Morton's researches, who, 

 having fil'.ed, for this purpose, the cerebral chamber of skulls 

 belonging to numerous specimens of the Caucasian, Mongolian, 

 Malay, American, and Ethiopian (Negro) stock, with seeds of 

 white pepper, found the first the most capacious, and the Ethi- 

 opian the smallest; though there may be some doubt whether 

 the Negro crania that served for his experiment, were not, in 

 part at least, derived from slaves of the Southern States of 

 North America, who, being descended from mixed African 

 tribes, and much more educated, have larger heads than new 

 Negroes from the coast. We have personally witnessed the 

 issue of military chacos (caps) to the 2d West India Regiment, 

 at the time when all the rank and file were bought out of 

 slave ships, and the sergeants alone being in part white, men 

 of color, Negroes from North America, or born Creoles, and it 

 was observed, that scarcely any fitted the heads of the privates 

 excepting the two smallest sizes ; in many cases robust men, 

 }f the standard height, required padding an inch and a half in 

 thickness, to fit their caps ; while those of the non-commis- 

 sioned officers were adjusted without any additional aid. 

 Though, on one hand, it is here stated that the Negroes from 

 the coast of Africa were, in all probability, still less favored 

 than the measurements of Dr. Morton proved ; it is, on the 

 other, equally true, that the progress of development, and the 

 elevation of the forehead, in the mixed offspring between the 

 woolly-haired and white races, is often effaced in a second 

 generation. It is so always much sooner than the apparently 

 insignificant characters of the color of the skin, and the crisp- 

 ness of the hair, which are never totally obliterated till after the 

 fourth generation, when the African character may be deemed 

 absorbed. It is advanced as established, that an accidental 

 effect in the external characters of an individual may become 



