. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . thout ever turning intothe wool of the negro. The beard was scanty, thick only upon the was the highest type ; the commoner was squat, dumpy, and and shoulders seem to be enlarged at the expense of the pelvis and 1 E. de Bougé, Recherches sur les monuments qu on peut attribuer aux six premières dynasties, p. 3. 2 All the features of the two portraits given below are taken either from the statues, the bas-reliefs, or the many mummies which it fell to my lot both to see and to study during the time I was inEgypt. They corresp

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. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . thout ever turning intothe wool of the negro. The beard was scanty, thick only upon the was the highest type ; the commoner was squat, dumpy, and and shoulders seem to be enlarged at the expense of the pelvis and 1 E. de Bougé, Recherches sur les monuments qu on peut attribuer aux six premières dynasties, p. 3. 2 All the features of the two portraits given below are taken either from the statues, the bas-reliefs, or the many mummies which it fell to my lot both to see and to study during the time I was inEgypt. They correspond pretty closely with those drawn by Hamy, Aperçu sur les races humainesde la basse vallée du Nil, p. 4, et seq. (cf. Bulletin de la Société dAnthropologie, 1886, p. 721, et seq.). 3 With regard to this question, see, more recently, B. Virchow, Anthropologie Mgyptens, in theCorrespondenz-Blatt der d. Anthr. Ges., 1888, No. 10, p. 107, et seq. 4 Statue of Rânofir in the Gizeh Museum (Vth dynasty), after a photograph by Emil 48 THE NILE AND EGYPT.

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