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ALEXANDER WHISTELO.

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the other side will not fail to
avail himself of your opinions to
the utmost extent, perhaps be-
yond your intention. I wish,
therefore, by taking your opin,
jon touching the probability of
other facts, to find what degreo
of belief you attach to the pree-
ent, and by establishing a stand-
ard of faith, fix a boundary line
Detween us; and also to diseover,
if possible, how much light
Jearned opinions msy throw up-
on_this canse.

Dr. Mitch. Some years sgo
there was a machine invented,
ealled « light guage or photo-
meter, which was to measure the
degrees both of light and shade,
but part of it always failed or
broke; or, for want of encomr-
agement, it never was brought to
perfection. *

Mr. Sampson, Oh, what a
pity! I ones projected a ma-
ebine to measure happiness, wie-
dom, love, and other moral qual-
ities and affections; but the la-
dies secretly discouraged it, fear-
ing to have it known how they
loved the fellows. Since then
that our machines are out of or-
der, doctor, we must proceed by
the imperfect modes of our
fathers, Are you acquainted
with a ai related by Mr. Sans-
sure, of # lady of qualit ‘of Mi-
lan who had seven sons? I have
no recollection of such a story.

Mr, Sampson. It was this: the
two first of her sons, and also
the two last had brown hair and
black eyes; the three intervening
had blue hair and red eyes. The
author accounta for it in this
wway: that while the mother was
pregnant with threa red-haired
and bine-eyed children, she had
also conceived a violent passion
tor milk, in which she indulged

to exeess, This might, when re-
lated Posed My. Saussure, have
r 8 traveller's Story; but
itis Fe stoped by an eminent pby-
siologist, Mr. Bussi, surgeon of
the hospital of Milan, What
would you infer in such a case?
I would infer that the milk must
have been bine, such as they
sometimes sell mixed with water;
otherwise I cannot see how it
could have made the children’s
eyes blue. I think not, doctor;
they would have been rather of
a cream color, Tt must have been
milk and water, or skimmed
milk. It is 2 Joes that the case
does not mention which. Do you
think it credible, sir, that Louis
the Second, king of Hungary
and Bohemia, was born without
‘his epidermis or searfekin? It
ia not impossible, Yot for a king
to come withont his skin, that
was coming naked into the
world. What Paty think of
Zoroester, king of the Bactry-
anet I have never thought about.

im.

Hr. Sampson. Pliny anys he
came Tat into the world—
ia that probablet Tt would be an
exception to the general rule, for
we So feperally come into the world

ee "Bam ia sae And seldom go
out of it iaughing; eo that as
the only time we have to laugh
ig when we are in it, it is wise
to profit by it, Do you resollect
Pliny’s remark upon this king;
that he little knew what a world
he was coming into, for if he had
foreseen bis destiny he would
not have been so merry? Tt was
a witty remark of Pliny if it was
his. May I ask what you think
of the opinion of the great Veru-
lam, that when mothers eat
quinces and coriander seed, the

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