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ran, Governor of the province, sent a circum- 

 stantial account of this phenomenon to Cadiz. 



It is not a very uncommon circumstance, to 

 find, both among humankind and animals* 

 males whose breasts contain milk ; and the cli- 

 mate does not appear to exert any marked in- 

 fluence on the more or less abundance of this 

 secretion. The ancients cite the milk of the he 

 goats of Lemnos and Corsica. In our own time, 

 we have seen in the country of Hanover, a he 

 goat, which for a great number of years was 

 milked every other day, and yielded more milk 

 than a female goat-f~. Among the signs of the 

 pretended weakness of the Americans, travellers 

 have mentioned the milk contained in the 

 breasts of men It is however improbable, 

 that it has ever been observed in a whole tribe, 

 in some part of America unknown to modern 

 travellers ; and I can affirm, that at present it 

 is not more common in the new continent, than 

 in the old. The labourer of Arenas, whose his- 

 tory we have just related, is not of the copper- 



* Athanas. Joannides de Mammarum Struct., 1801, p. 6. 

 Haller, Elem. Physiol., T. 7, P. II, page 18. 



f Blumenbach, Vergleich. Anat. 1805, p. 504. Hance- 

 vrisches Magaz., 1787, page 753. Reil, Arch, der Physiol., 

 T. 3, p. 449. Montegre, Gazette de Sant<5, 1812, p. 110. 



X It has even been seriously related, that in a part of 

 Brazil it is the men, and not the women, that suckle chil- 

 dren. Clavigero, Storia di Messico. T. 4. 169, 



