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574 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,

Mr. Sampson. Was there not
some other case whieh you men-
tioned before the police office?
I mentioned somewhat jocularly
the loves of Theagines and Char-
ielea. Chariclea was a beautiful
end fair virgin, of Ethiopian
parents, Her whiteness was oc-
easioned by her looking on a
atatue of Venus.

The Mayor, About what time,
doctor, might that have hap-
pened? The work is written by
a cbristian bishop, Heliodorus,
who wrote about the fourth
century. It was the first novel
I ever read, and made a great
impression on me.

Mr. Sampson. As to those
eases in which the agency of
some external objects apon the
mother’s imagination produces
an entire change in the foetus,
have you any facts within your
own knowl t There was a
man in the city of New York
who kept a cow, Will yon tell
the court, doctor, the story of
that cow? The cow was a favor-
ite with the wife of the man, but
he found it more convenient to
kill her than to keap her. And
how did the death of the cow in-
fluence the birth of the child?

The eow, affording a larger eup-
ply of provisions than was re
quired for family consumption,
he sold part and reserved the
rest. Among the parts that were
reserved, were the feet. The wife
saw them hanging up in a man-
gled state. It was the first news
she had of the death of her fa-
vorite cow; and she was so vehe-
mently moved and so shocked, as
to affect the child of which she
was then pregnant. The chilt
was born without any arms, and
with distorted feet.

Mr. Sampson. Did you ever
converses with the father of
mother of the child? I did not.
But the child is still alive; and
there is no doubt of the fact.
Have you examined the child?
I saw it onee as I passed, play-
ing with a cooper’s shaving knife
Detween its toes. I stopped to
inquire, and was told the story.
Is thera no other ease, ancient or
modem, to support this theory:
is there nothing in verse or
prosef There is a ease, called
the Black Case, in Haddington’s
poems, He was a lord of ses-
sions, or other considerable man
in Scotland. The story rans
thus:—There was a man who fol-

would it be, if instances of the spontaneous disappearance of this
sable mark of distinction between slaves and their masters were to
‘bevome frequent! They would then be no less important to the
moralist and political economist.

° Pompey, a very healthy negro, of about twenty-six years of
age, about two years since discovered on his right thigh a email
white spot, which, from that to the present time, has been oop-
stantly increasing to the size of nearly = half-crown picce; while
there have appeared, on other parts of his body, other spote, to
the number of twelve, of different aizes, but all constantly and grad-
ually enlarging. In several of the spots, the margin is perfectly
defined, from ¢ distinet line between the clear white and the natural
color, In othera there are circumscribed rings of a dun appearance,
the external margin of which is very regular. I have the fullest
belief that a vey few years will complete the total change,

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