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the offspring of unions of different tints, and this principle 
may he accepted, that in these cases the more opposite and 
contrary colours so degenerate that white men may sensibly 
pass into black men, and the reverse. Hybridity, if such 
term may be applied to this feature of Anthropology, is, as 
seen from the foregoing, a very important principle, as by 
it such varieties of colour are attained ; and a feature 
which must not be omitted is that the fecundity of the 
descendants of the issue of these hybrid unions is superior to 
that of men and women of the same colour, a circumstance 
which, in the economy of Nature, will in a period of time 
have much effect on the variety colour of a race. These 
offsprings are distinguished by class names, arranged by 
Blumenbacli as follows :— 
The issue of a black man and white woman, or black 
woman and white man, is called Mulatto, Molaka, and 
Meletta; in Italian, Bertin, Creole, and Criole; in the Malabar 
language, Mestico. The issue of an American man and 
European woman is a Mameluke, or Metif; from an Euro¬ 
pean male and a Mulatto female comes a Terceron, Cast^a. 
The son of an European female by a Metif is a Quateroon ; 
the issue of two Mulattos is a Casque; and of Blacks and 
Mulattos, Griffs. A Terqeron female and European produce 
Quateroons, Postiqos ; and the American Quateroon (who is 
equal to the Black Terqeron), produces from an European, 
an Octavoon. The issue of a Quateroon male and a white 
female is a Quinteroon; and the child of an European 
woman from an American Octavoon is, in Spanish, 
Puchuela; and so as these various grades marry and 
intermix, the progress from lighter to darker, and vice versa, 
can very easily explain away some of the difficulties regard¬ 
ing the variation of colour. Then there must be considered 
those curiosities, if the term be allowed, which present them¬ 
selves in all anthropological investigations, but which do not 
form any part of the present paper. I refer to spotted men, 
wild men, Leucsetliiopians, Nyctalopes, &c. These offer 
interesting investigations, but their study belongs rather to 
the physiologist than to any other. 
The preceding are some of the features or factors, which 
enter into and form part of that study which has for its object 
the investigation of the most perfect creature of the Creator. 
From these it will be seen how grand and extensive is the 
range of Anthropology, how broad is its meaning, and how 
ennobling is the aim of the science. 
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