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175 Books of travel in the United States generally contain some remarks on the personal attractions of the mixed race in New Orleans. From the little I saw of them I can add that they appeared to me as spiritual as the French themselves. I am more disposed to believe that this is hereditary, than that it is the result merely of imitation. But with respect to their personal appearance, after having of late seen so many of the coarse and ill-visaged half-breed in which an Anglo-Saxon was the father, I was much struck with their superiority in face & figure. The features of many might almost have been called delicate and refined; & it was so, strange to say, even when very perceptible traces of the African nose & lips remained, & these still surmounted with the African wool. I understood that this was also to a great extent the case where a Spaniard was the Father. The reason of this difference I believe to be a very obvious one, the Frenchmen & Spaniards, having much smaller bones that the Northern nations, are better able in the unclear to connect , in their mixed descendants, this grossness of the physiognomy & figure of the African. The German half-breeds are still more unattractive than the Anglo-Saxon; the Scandinavian are worse; but the worst of all are those whose long-headed, & high cheek-bones Father came from North of the Tweed.