 | Edward Long - Jamaica - 1774 - 640 pages
...; nay, fome have not fcrupled to fuppofe, that they are converted into black-a-moors. The truth is, that the children born in England have not, in general, lovelier or more tranfparent fkins, than the offspring of white parents in Jamaica. In the Southern parts of the ifland,... | |
 | Sir William Lawrence - Anatomy, Comparative - 1819 - 646 pages
...facts, I place the authority of LOXG, a most respectable eye-witness, who, in his History of Jamaica, affirms that " the children born in England have not,...skins than the offspring of white parents in Jamaica." The " austrum spirans vultut et color," which the above-mentioned acute and learned naturalist ascribes... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 570 pages
...Spanish parents are very fair.— Шов (i, 171).— The same is the case in the West Indies. Lone, in his History of Jamaica, expressly affirms, "that...variety, who have been settled in warm climates from lime immemorial, and that the question ought to be decided by the Moors, Arabians, &c. Their children,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...case in the West Indies. Long, in his History of Jamaica, expressly affirms, "that the children bora in England have not, in general, lovelier or more...offspring of white parents in Jamaica." But it may he urged, that this is not the case with respect to the other nations of the Caucasian variety, who... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 546 pages
...in the West Indies. Long, in his History of Jamaica, expressly affirms, " that the children born m England have not, in general, lovelier or more transparent...Arabians, &c. Their children, however, 'are also born fair-complexioned, as fair as the children of Europeans, who live under a cold climate. Russell informs... | |
 | Sir William Lawrence - Anatomy, Comparative - 1848 - 502 pages
...facts, I place the authority of LOHO, a most respectable eye-witness, who, in his History of Jamaica, affirms, that " the children born in England have not, in general, lovelier or more transparent * Der Naturforscher, pt. I. p. I ; pt. Iz. p. 22. t When the fcetus in utero has small-pox or syphilis,... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 544 pages
...informs us that the children born in Guayaquil of Spanish parents are very fair.— Ulloa (^ 171).i-The same is the case in the West Indies. Long, in his...Arabians, &c. Their children, however, are also born fair-complexioned, as fair as the children of Europeans, who live under a cold climate. Russell informs... | |
 | John Campbell - African Americans - 1851 - 566 pages
...facts, I place the authority of LONG, a most respectable eye-witness, who, in his History of Jamaica, affirms, that ' the children born in England have...skins than the offspring of white parents in Jamaica.' The ' austrum spirans vultus et color,' which the abovementioned acute and learned naturalist ascribes... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1879 - 514 pages
...their parents. Ulloa informs us that the children born in Guayaquil of Spanish parents are very fair. The same is the case in the West Indies. Long, in...Arabians, &c. Their children, however, are also born fair-complexioned, as fair as the children of Europeans who live under a cold climate. Russell informs... | |
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The same is the case in the West Indies. Long, in his history of Jamaica, expressly affirms ' that the children born in England have not, in general, lovelier or more transparent skins than the offspring of white parents in Jamaica.' But it may be urged... 
