IL An Account of aNegrO'Boy that is dappehdin 
feveral Places of his' Body with White Spots. 
By Will. Byrd, Efq, F. R. S. 
THERE is now in En^and, in the Pofleflion of 
Cz'^t^Lin Charles Wager, a Negro-Boy, of about 
Elei^en Years CMd, who was born in the upper Parts 
of Rappahanock River, in Virginia: His Father and 
Mother were both perfedl Negroes, and Servants to a 
Gentleman of that Country, one Major Taylor. This 
Boy, till he came to be Three Years Old, w^as in all 
Refpeds, like other Black Children, and then without 
having any Diftemper , began to have feveral little 
White Specks in his Neck and upon his Breaft, which, 
with bis Age, have fince been obferved to increafe ve- 
ry much, both in Number and Bignefi; (b that now 
from the upper part of his Neck (where fome of his 
Wool is already turn'd White) down to his Knees he 
is every where dappel'd with White Spots, fome of 
which are broader than the Palm of a Man's Hand, and 
others of a fmaller Proportion. The Spots are wonder- 
fully White, at leaft equal to the Skin of the faireft La- 
dy, and have the Advantage in thiSj that they are not 
liable to be Tano'd. But they are, I think, of a Paler 
White, and do not fliow Flefii and Blood fb lively 
through them as the Skin of White People, but poffibly 
the Reafon of that may be, becaufe the Skin of a Ne- 
gro is much thicker. This Boy never had any Sicknefs, 
but has all. along been very Sprightly and Atftive, and 
has more Ingenuity too, than is common to that Gene- 
ration. His Spots grow contionally larger and larger, 
and 'lis probable, if he lives, he may in time become 
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