oing to Visit St. _Winifrids_ Well, this Lady, who was a _Catholick_, and
devout in her Religion, and a pretty while in the Water to perform some
Devotions, and had occasion to fix her Eyes very attentively upon the Red
pipple-stones, which in a scatter'd order made up a good part of those that
appear'd through the water, and a while after growing Bigg, she was
deliver'd of a Child, whose White Skin was Copiously speckl'd with spots of
the Colour and Bignesss of those Stones, and though now this Child have
already liv'd several years, yet she still retains them. I have but two
things to add concerning the Blackness of _Negroes_, the one is, that the
Seat of that Colour seems to be but the thin _Epidermes_, or outward Skin,
for I knew a young _Negroe_, who having been lightly Sick of the Small Pox
or Measles, (for it was doubted which of the two was his Disease) I found
by enquiry of a person that was concern'd for him, that in those places
where the little Tumors had broke their passage through the Skin, when they
were gone, they left Within specks behind them; And the lately commended
_Piso_ assures us, that having the opportunity in _Brasil_ to Dissect many
_Negroes_, he cleerly found that their Blackness went no deeper than the
very outward Skin, which _Cuticula_ or _Epidermis_ being remov'd, the
undermost Skin or _Cutis_ appear'd just as White as that of _Europaean_
Bodyes. And the like has been affirmed to me by a Physician of our own,
whom, hearing he had Dissectcd a _Negroe_ here in _England_, I consulted
about this particular. The other thing to be here taken notice of
concerning _Negroes_ is, That having enquir'd of an Intelligent
acquaintance of mine (who keeps in the _Indies_ about 300. of them as well
Women as Men to work in his Plantations,) whether their Children come Black
into the world; he answer'd, That they did not, but were brought forth of
almost the like Reddish Colour with our _European_ Children; and having
further enquir'd, how long it was before these Infants appear'd Black, be
reply'd, that 'twas not wont to be many daies. And agreeable to this
account I find that, given us in a freshly publish'd French Book written by
a _Jesuit_, that had good opportunity of Knowing the Truth of what he
Delivers, for being one of the Missionaries of his Order into the Southern
_America_ upon the Laudable Design of Converting Infidels to Christianity,
he Baptiz'd several Infants, which when newly Born, were much o