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Now, though this deviation of colour In the 
child, from the contrary hue of both parents, is very 
fingular, and fomething preternatural, yet in dances 
of the fame kind have happened before. We had 
one about four years ago here in London, which was 
a white girl, fomething younger than this boy, but 
exadlly fimilar in colour, wool, &c. and was faid, by 
the perfon who made a fliew of her, to have been 
the offspring of a black father and mother. I did 
not go to fee her ; but I read an advertifement, con- 
cerning her, feveral times in the public papers, wherein 
fhe was called a white negro girl ; and was informed 
by thofe that faw her, that fhe anfwered the defcrip- 
tion in the advertifement very truly. She was fhewn 
in town for fome months every day. 
To this remarkable cafe I diall fubjoln two others, 
one of which I faw myfelf, and the other was given 
me by a gentleman of undoubted veracity j which, 
though they differ in fome circumflances from the 
above, yet have fo much relation to each other, as 
will prevent their being cenfured as digrelfions from 
the fubjedl. 
The fird is of a black man who married a white 
woman in York feveral years ago 3 of which I had 
an account from an eye-witnefs. She foon proved 
with child, and in due time brought forth one in- 
tirely black, and in every particular of colour and 
features refembling the father, without the lead par- 
ticipation from the mother. This was looked upon 
as a very fingular cafe, becaufe people naturally ex- 
pe(fl the iffue of fuch a marriage would be tawny ; 
which indeed is the ufual effe(5t produced by the coii- 
grefs of black and white perfons. 
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