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the girl and given her the pox, he foon put her un- 
der the care of a captain returning to America, and 
fent her back to her own country. 
The other account is, that admiral Franklin had 
taken a Spanifh fliip, in war time, and brought her 
into Carolina j and, upon fearching, found a pidlure 
of a boy who was as beautifully mottled ail over 
with black and white fpots as any dog that ever was 
feen 5 it is uncertain which was the ground, or 
which colour the fpots were of; but this lady fays, 
that feveral copies of the picfturc were taken in Ca- 
rolina ; and that they faid it was the portrait of a 
child born of negro parents upon the Spanifh main ; 
the fhip was bound to old Spain ; and this lady does 
not doubt but the admiral may have the pidurc in 
his cuftody now. If thefe fails are afcertained by 
thefe two gentlemen, they will be worth recording 
with the prefent fubjeil, which I will take the trou- 
ble of enquiring into further. 
Thefe deviations of colour are indeed very extra- 
ordinary among the African negroes, but they are 
not peculiar to them ; fome parts of America have 
alfo limilar variations from the common colour of the 
inhabitants ; and as I edeem it a great happinefs 
when I can contribute to the entertainment of this 
learned body, I cannot excufc myfelf from adding 
to the above, what Mr. Wafer’s account of the 
Idhmus of America gives us upon the like objects in 
that country. See page 134 of his Defcription, See, 
London, printed for Knapton in Paul’s Church-yard, 
in 1699; where, after having deferibed the natural 
copper-coloured complexion of the people, he fiys, 
‘‘ There is one complexion fo fingular among a fort 
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