near the same age,
are born to the same woman,--similar to that exemplified in the case of
the mare who was covered first by a stallion and a quarter of an hour
later by an ass, and gave birth at one parturition to a horse and a
mule. Parsons speaks of a case at Charleston, S.C., in 1714, of a white
woman who gave birth to twins, one a mulatto and the other white. She
confessed that after her husband left her a negro servant came to her
and forced her to comply with his wishes by threatening her life.
Smellie mentions the case of a black woman who had twins, one child
black and the other almost white. She confessed having had intercourse
with a white overseer immediately after her husband left her bed.
Dewees reports a similar case. Newlin of Nashville speaks of a negress
who bore twins, one distinctly black with the typical African features,
while the other was a pretty mulatto exhibiting the distinct characters
of the Caucasian race. Both the parents were perfect types of the black
African negro. The mother, on being questioned, frankly acknowledged
that shortly after being with her husband she had lain a night with a
white man. In this case each child had its own distinct cord and
placenta.

Archer gives facts illustrating and observations showing: "that a white
woman, by intercourse with a white man and negro, may conceive twins,
one of which shall be white and the other a mulatto; and that, vice
versa, a black woman, by intercourse with a negro and a white man, may
conceive twins, one of which shall be a negro and the other a mulatto."
Wight narrates that he was called to see a woman, the wife of an East
Indian laborer on the Isle of Trinidad, who had been delivered of a
fetus 6 inches long, about four months old, and having a cord of about
18 inches in length. He removed the placenta, and in about half an hour
the woman was delivered of a full-term white female child. The first
child was dark, like the mother and father, and the mother denied any
possibility of its being a white man's child; but this was only natural
on her part, as East Indian husbands are so intensely jealous that they
would even kill an unfaithful wife. Both the mother and the mysterious
white baby are doing well. Bouillon speaks of a negress in Guadeloupe
who bore twins, one a negro and the other a mulatto. She had sexual
congress with both a negro and a white man.

Delmas, a surgeon of Rouen, tells of a woman of thirty-six who was
delive