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 iunformed 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
