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do very quickly : and when they come to their full 
growth, being then in many places near an inch in 
height, the preffure of his clothes is troublefome. 
He has had the fmall-pox, and been twice falivated, 
in hopes of getting rid of this difagreeable covering ; 
during which diforders the warting came off, and his 
fkin appeared white and fmooth, like that of other 
people 3 but, on his recovery, foon became as it was 
before. His health at other times has been very 
good during his whole life. 
^ But the moft extraordinary circumftance of this 
man’s ftory, and indeed the only reafon of my giving 
you this trouble, is, that he has had fix children, all 
with the fame rugged covering as himfelf ; the firft 
appearance whereof in them, as well as in him, came 
on in about nine weeks after the birth. Only one 
of them is now living, a very pretty boy, eight years 
of age, whom I faw, and examined, with his father, 
and who is exadlly in the fame condition, which it 
is needlefs to repeat. He alfo has had the fmall- 
pox, and during that time was free from this dif- 
order. 
It appears therefore pad all doubt, that a race of 
people may be propagated by this man, having fuch 
rugged coats or coverings as himfelf : and, if this 
fhould ever happen, and the accidental original be 
forgotten, ’tis not improbable they might be deemed 
a different fpecies of mankind : a confideration, which 
would almoft lead one to imagine, that if mankind 
were all produced from one and the fame flock, the 
black fkins of the negroes, and many other differ- 
ences of the like kind, might poffibly have been ori- 
ginally owing to fome fuch accidental caufe. 
Mr. 
