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of a white woman by a Hottentot are taller, whiter, and of 

 more European features than those of a Hottentot woman and 

 a European. The latter are brown, thick-set men, with hair 

 less crisp than that of the Negro, flat nose, hollow cheeks, no 

 beard, and but few hairs on the upper lip. 1 According to 

 Sparraian, 2 their bones and muscles are more developed than 

 in Hottentots. 



Since it results that there is no certain rule with regard to 

 the greater resemblance of mongrels to either of the parents, 

 we must try whether other facts may not throw some light on 

 this question. Some authors have taken as a starting point, 

 the greater or less differences of types. If the difference be 

 important, the mongrel represents the intermediate type ; 3 and 

 this intermediate form is, according to I. Geoffrey St. Hilaire, 

 constant. On the other hand, when the parent stocks are less 

 distinct, the mongrel approaches constantly one of the types of 

 either parent. In the intermixture of the Negro and the Euro- 

 pean, which Geoffroy considers as specifically distinct, inter- 

 mediate types are constant results. Nott and Gliddon agree 

 in this view, but add that the cross-breeds of different species 

 of men do not, in respect of characters, all obey the same law ; 

 for while Europeans and Negroes produce an intermediate type, 

 others (Europeans and Americans) produce types resembling 

 either of the parents. 



With regard to animals, for instance, mongrels of wild and 

 tame hogs, dogs, cats, birds, take either after the male or 

 female. We may admit that in man the Mulatto type 

 appears to be constant, but this applies chiefly to the first 

 generation ; as by a continued admixture of new elements of 

 the white or black race, a variety of forms is produced, as 

 shown by the following examples. The third child of a three- 

 quarter white woman by a Mulatto (half-breed), had the colour 

 of the father; the other children were lighter in colour than 

 the mother. A Mulatto woman bore to a Negro two children 



1 Arbousset et Daumas, " Eel. d'un voy. au N. E. du Cap de B. Esperance," 

 p. 20, 1842. 



2 E. nach d. K. d. g. H.," p. 261, 1784. 



3 Edwards, " Des caracterea phy. des races humaines/' p. 21, 1829. 



