Two Essays: One, Upon Single Vision with Two Eyes; the Other, On Dew; A Letter to the Right Hon. Lloyd, Lord Kenyon: And An Account of a Female of the White Race of Mankind, Part of Whose Skin Resembles that of a Negro; with Some Observations on the Causes of the Differences in Colour and Form Between the White and Negro Races of Men ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818 - 439 pages |
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