The Colonisation of the Sub-Himalayas and Neilgherries, with Remarks on the Management of European Children in India
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tinue their race through many successive generations. Twining declared that there was no known instance in his time of a pure European descent in the country extending beyond the third remove; and Sir Joseph Fayrer's observation prolongs it to the fourth generation only, and no further. The Portuguese in Ceylon and India have, perhaps, been more fortunate. To what extent, I do not know; for their descendants now met with are much mixed, and decidedly not prolific, any more than is the Anglo-native amalgam. Barrenness among the women of this mixture is common to a con-
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