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further. Bad the cousins intermarried, a six-fingered variety of the human 
TCLC6 might have been set up. * 
41 As this last remark of Professor Huxley (which I have 
ventured to italicize) introduces the exact line of argument 
that I am about to adduce in relation to the derivation of t e 
Negro race from our own primeval stock, I cannot but here 
anticipate, what I feel sure will be at once objected to, (viz.) 
the unnaturalness of our presupposing the contraction of any 
such monstrous intermarriages. It is a difficulty which I re - y 
admit Of course, under such circumstances, to give satis- 
factory reasons for the perpetuation of the Negroes, springing 
up, as y i suppose them to have done, in consequence of these 
abnormal births and intermarriages, will require the greatest 
care and consideration. In an age of the world like i the present 
it would not only be improbable, but impossible. For the 
present, however, I say nothing on that point because— before 
we go further — I wish to illustrate this striking tendency 
toward an inheritance of certain physical peculiarities by 
mpans of some other instances. 
42 Two most singularly exceptional births, well known to 
students in ethnology, have been recorded the peculiarities 
of each of which were hereditarily transmitted through at least 
three generations ; the one family being Siamese and the other 
English. In the Siamese family (described by Mr. Crawford 
in his Embassy to the Court of Ava, and well stated by Dr. 
Latham in his work entitled Descriptive Ethnology) we learn 
that the grandfather of this family was five feet three inches 
and a half. Let me quote his words 
« The whole forehead, the cheeks, the eyelids, the nose, including a portion 
of the inside, were covered with fine hair. On the forehead and cheetathLS 
was eight inches long, and on the nose and dun about four inches n 
it was of a silvery grey ; its texture was sdky, lank, and straight P 
terior and interior surface of the ears, with the inside of the exter^d ear, 
were completely covered with hair of the same description as . that on the face 
and about eight inches long : it was this chiefly which contributed to give has 
whole appearance, at first sight, an unnatural and almost inhuman aspect. 
He may be strictly said to have had neither eyelashes, eyebrows, nor bear , 
or, at least, they were supplanted by the same silky hair which enveloped the 
whole face. The whole body, with the exception of the hands and feet, was 
covered with hair of the same texture and colour : it was most plentiiu over 
the spine and shoulders, where it was five inches long ; over the breast it was 
* Pp. 95-97. 
