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ALEXANDER WHISTELO.

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rale; for instance, wherever the
eomplexion partakes more of the
white than from the known pa-
rentage, it should be expected,
then it would be found that in
some other of those indications
there will be preponderance the
other way. One example out of
numbers I had noticed, was the
French general, Rigand. He
was the son of @ white man, a
relation of mine, by a black
woman. He was so dark as to
differ little from the true Afri-
¢an complexion; but in retam
for that, he had the features and
form of a white man—was
handsome and well made.
this principle of nature is not
universal, it ix, as repeated ob-
servations had proved to me,
very general, The last symptom
of the negro blood which disap-
pears, is the erispation of the
hair and the setting on of the
anele, amounting to this, that the
leg was inserted more forward
on the foot, and consequently
the heel longer, Therefore, when
T was told that this child was of
s black man, I examined it to
discover whether, seeing ita com-
plexion was so unusually fair,
there were not some strong
traces of the black race to coun-
terbalance that deviation; and
upon looking at the conforma-

ion of its feet and legs, and
more particnlarly at the straight-
ness and light eolor of its hair,
was disappointed not to find my
observation verified; am now of
opinion that it is not the off-
spring of a black man. I conceive
the woman to be 8 perfect ma-
latto. Have known one instance
of a woman of mixed blood hav-
ing = white skin with the fea-
tures of a negro strongly pro-
nounced,

Mr. Vanhook. Might not some
aeeident, happening at the mo-
ment of coition, produce by its
effeets upon the woman’s imagi-
nation as great a deviation from
the general rule as thist Why
make that particular eonelusion?
Tt would be much more apt if it
prodaeed any thing, to produce
deformity or abortion; but it
would be too far-fetched to sup-
pose it would cloud or unelond
the skin. Upon the whole, as I
am impressed, I must give my
opinion that it is not the black
man’s child.

Alderman Baker. The woman,
when examined before me, said
she had no intereourse with any
‘white man. Afterwards, she ac-
knowledged she had had « strug-
gle with one.

Mr, O’Blenis. Am clerk of the
polies; after her examination
‘on oath was closed, she was ques-
tioned as to that fact, and an-
swered laughing, that the white
man had torn her petticoat.

Bir James Jay, M.D, Have a
decided opinion it is not a black
man’s child, It wag not neces-
sary to wait years to see what
conformity there might be in the
hair with the mother. It ‘was
enough if counsel chose to exam-
ine the mother at present.

‘Mr, Sampson, Doctor, we
have been deep in the mysteries
of Locina. Very sir; T
hope you have profited. No Sir
James; it is & cross birth—we
are not yet delivered of our
doubts. We want to know
whether the Abbe Spallenzani’s
method of propagation is a safe
and good one—whether there is
not sneh a thing as Tucina sine
concubitu; for, as it appears,
the black man could not have got
the child because it is white, nor

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