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II. C O N S I D E R I N G only the French peasant colonist and the West African slave as the original factors of that physical evolution visible in the modern fille-de-couleur,
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it would seem incredible ;—for the intercrossing alone could not adequately explain all the physical results. T o understand them fully, it will be necessary to bear in mind that both of the original races became modified