[173] Dumont, Mémoires Historiques sur la Louisiane, (Paris, 1753,) Tom. II. pp. 244-6. Mercier, Mon Bonnet de Nuit, art. Morale, (Amsterdam, 1784,) Tom. II. p. 226.
[174] Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the Secretary of State, with his Answer, (Philadelphia, 1792,) p. 6.
[175] Chapitres VII., VIII.
[176] Catherine Ferguson: Lossing’s Eminent Americans, p. 404.
[177] Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, (London, 1816,) Vol. I. pp. 45, 257. Grégoire, De la Littérature des Nègres, (Paris, 1808,) p. 118.
[178] Joannes Leo Africanus, Africæ Descriptio, (Lugd. Batav., Elzevir, 1632,) Lib. VII. p. 646.
[179] Serm. XXV., De Nigredine et Formositate Sponsæ, id est Ecclesiæ: Opera, Edit. Benedict., (Paris, 1839,) Tom. I. col. 2814.
[180] Isaiah, xi. 9, lxvi. 18.
[181] Matthew, xiii. 33.
[182] 1 Corinthians, v. 6; Galatians, v. 9.