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102 of Albemarle. A ſixth inſtance is a woman of the property of a Mr. Butler, near Peterſburgh. She is ſtout and robuſt, has iſſue a daughter, jet black, by a black man. I am not i u n formed as to her eye-ſight. The ſeventh inſtance is of a male belonging to a Mr. Lee of Cumberland. His eyes are tremulous and weak. He is tall of ſtature, and now advanced in years. He is the only male of the Albinos which have come within my information. Whatever be the cauſe of the diſeaſe in the ſkin or in its colouring matter, which produces this change, it ſeems more incident to the female than male ſex. To theſe I may add the mention of a negro man within my own knowledge, born black, and of black parents; on whoſe chin, when a boy, a white ſpot appeared. This continued to increaſe till he became a man, by which time it had extended over his chin, lips, one cheek, the under jaw, and neck on that ſide. It is of the Albino white, without any mixture of red, and has for ſeveral years been ſtationary. He is robuſt and healthy, and the change of color was not accompanied with any ſenſible diſeaſe, either general or topical.

Of our fiſh and inſects there has been nothing like a full deſcription or collection. More of them are deſcribed in Cateſby than in any other work. Many alſo are to be found in Sir Hans Sloane's Jamaica, as being common to that and this country. The honey-bee is not a native of our continent. Marcgrave indeed mentions a ſpecies of honey-bee in Brazil. But this has no ſting and is therefore different from the one we have, which reſembles perfectly that of Europe. The Indians concur with us in the tradition that it was brought