This woman was cook-maid to colonel Barnes of Maryland; she was born in
Virginia, and is about forty years old, remarkably healthy and robust,
and originally as black as the blackest African. About fifteen years
ago, the skin next adjoining to the nails of the fingers became white,
her mouth soon after suffered the same alteration, which gradually
extended over the whole body, though not quite in an equal degree; four
parts in five of her skin are as white, smooth, and transparent, as in a
fair European; the neck and back along the vertebræ, are least changed;
her face and neck, in which the change is complete, discover the veins
under the skin; and are suffused with blushes, when any accident excites
the passions, either of anger or shame.
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_NEW-YORK._
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