1803.] 
That 6 ev and v2 fhould be ufed of 
the fame perfon is hardly confiftent with 
the genius of the Greek language, and 
acre, which belongs to wpexovre, ftands 
oddly between ta deauZavze¢. 1 fhould 
propofe reading, 
"Os Y aproroy, AnEavros, ETL HM. TAA. | 
The paflage may have been dara 
by fome one who did not know that the 
pronoun may be omitted in the genitive ab- 
folute. But we need not go farther for 
an example of this peculiarity than back 
to verfe 260 of the very book in hand.— 
If an inftance of 6 3: wavreg’o wwo is re- 
guired, it will be found in verles 474, 
475+ 
In Sophocles GEdip. Tyr. 464, 
Levny ere 
euntlpe wpodernyus Eueroptucerat 
Villoifon (Animadver: in Longus, p. 
35,) condemns cxnelow apodeayus as not 
Greek, and propofes cxnwlz. But the 
common reading may be defended by The- 
ocrit: Idy]. xxil, v. 102, evaoia yepot wpo- 
Seinvvs. 
In Virgil En, ii. 615, 
Nimbo effulgens, et Gorgone feva, 
it is rather doubtful whether feva is the 
nominative or ablative. Perhaps the 
doubt may be refolved by the Gorgone cru- 
da virago of Statius. 
In the 8th book of the A®neid, v. 222, 
there is a paflage on which the critics have 
entertained different opinions, 
Tum primum noftri Cacum videre timentem, 
Turbatumque oculis, 
Mr. Wakefield reads oculi. In Livy 
we find oculisque fimul et mente turbatum, 
In the 12th book, v. 797, the fenle of 
mortalis is confidered as ambiguous, 
Mortaline decuit violari volnere divum ? 
‘The author of the Epitome of Homer’s 
Tliad, in verfe 469, has fhewn how 4e un- 
derftood it. Speaking of Diomede, he 
fays, 
Celeftemque manum mortali vulnerat hafta. 
Horace Carm. lib. iii. Od. ii. v. 14, 
Mors et fugacem perfequitur virum. 
Bentley reads confequitur. Baxter ob- 
jects fuo more. Gelner obferves, quem 
perfequitur : i.e. cupide @ conftanter fe- 
quitur mors, illum fine dubio confequitur 
etiam affequiturque. No one feems to 
have remembered that perfequi fugientes 
is a military phrafe, which at once defends 
An Englifh Albinos. 205 
the common reading, and gives {pirit and 
beauty to the paflage. 
Iam, Sir, your's, &c. 
E. COGAN. 
Higham Hill, Sept. 6, 1803. 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ie LAMPERT, a peafant of Ki- 
vernol, in this cbunty, was a compleat 
Albinos; a variety of the human fpecies 
very uncommon, at Jeaft in this kingdom, 
though in Guinea, Darien, Panama, &c. 
we are told fuch people are numerous, 
and the malady hereditary. This Albi- 
nos died on the roth inftant ; he was a 
little below the middle ftature, his hair 
white and foft, and eyes red. Though 
he was by no means remarkable for fenfi- 
bility,or quicknefs of parts, yet he poflefs- 
ed an uncommon fhare of induftry and 
economy. He was cook, houfemaid, &c. 
to the family in which he had fome 
time lived, and always managed matters 
much to the fatisfaétion of his mefimates. 
He was one of fix children, none of whom 
had any fuch phenomenon belonging to 
them. The extreme fenfibility of his or- 
gans of vifion rendered the influence of the 
{un perfectly unfriendly to them ; info- 
much, that at an early age he was thought 
incapable of purfuing any mat{culine avo~ 
cation, and undertook the management of 
his brother’s cottage. Towards the dufk 
of evening, or by moonlight, he beheld | 
objets more diftingtly, farther off, and 
with lefs difficulty. I had never an op- 
portunity of examining his eyes with any 
degree of minutenels; but I think the iris 
was white ; and am fure the pupil was of 
a deep red: to have attempted any thing 
like diffection would have been to offer 
violence to the feelings of the ignorant 
ruftics by whom he was furrounded, 
whofe unaffected concern at the lofs of 
their caterer mutt have foftened the moit 
callous heart. The abfence of the rete 
mucofum is, 1 believe, univerfally allowed 
to be the proximate or immediate caufe of 
the colour of the Albinos’s hair, fkin, 
and eyes; as, however, they certainly 
form no diftinct fpecies, but are produced 
both by Negro and European parents, it 
remains to be afcertained what has de- 
ftroyed that blackifh mucus which covers 
the interior of the eye when the embryo 
is about five weeks old, and ina found 
ftate. It is highly to be wifhed that the 
rgnote or primeval caule of this mifiake 
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