The British Apollo, Vol 1 of 3 Containing Two Thousand Answers to Curious Questions in Most Arts and Sciences, Serious, Comical, and Humorous, Both Universities, and of the RoyalSociety

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Id. The molt accurate of the modern anaibniifis have obferv'd, that ere is a certain glue or varn ilb, called by them onrus mucosum immediately under the Erro'enms, and that in different animals, or in difi'erent parts of the fame animal, being of a different colour, it imports it to' the Epihennixs, which 'tis, then to be fup pofed that this glue or gelly' in the Negroes is black.' But [till the quefiion will be how came it to _be fo in them'and white in us to which it may be eafily anfwer'd, that every one naturally begetting its like, 'tis no.wonder the children of Blacks thoold be black and then we mutt come to the latter part of the queflion, viz. How the firfi parents of the black generation came to be of that hue whiph is not fo eafy to be determined; for to fiy'that it was a punilhment infliéted tipon Chan; and his po fierity, is a very groundlefs uppofition; we rather think that' their going naked in a climate \where the fun-is extream hot, did contribute a little to if, by fcorching as it were the thick juice aformenti oned as' we fee that violent heat otlfire turns black feveral bodies; we alfo may conjecture that might ufe fome art to make this black colour the er, as 'tis related the Hotentots, or natives of the Cape Hope. Do at this day, anointi their children with a mixture of foot and oil, and o expofe them naked to the heat of the fun: this hue might be more firongly fixt in them after hy thef'orce of ima ination, by their Women. (when pregnant) always Eeholding flich. A famous precedent whereof, we have in billory, of a white Lady's conceiving a Black, from her continual looking on a Negro's piéture. Sa cred Writ gives us the hire infiance in brute crea tures.

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