. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . A Carpenter. A Rustic-wrestler. 224 EGYPT AND EGYPTIANS. It is thus that we trace this peculiar style of countenance, in its several modifications,through epochs and in localities the most remote from each other, and in every class of theEgyptian people. How different from the Pelasgic type, yet how obviously Caucasian!How varied in outline, yet how readily identified! And, if we compare these fe
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . A Carpenter. A Rustic-wrestler. 224 EGYPT AND EGYPTIANS. It is thus that we trace this peculiar style of countenance, in its several modifications,through epochs and in localities the most remote from each other, and in every class of theEgyptian people. How different from the Pelasgic type, yet how obviously Caucasian!How varied in outline, yet how readily identified! And, if we compare these features withthose of the Egyptian series of embalmed heads, are we not forcibly impressed with astriking analogy not only in osteological conformation, but also in the very expression ofthe face ? ... No one, I conceive, will question the analogy I have pointed out. This typeis certainly national, and presents to our view the genuine Egyptian physiognomy, which, inthe ethnographic scale, is intermediate between the Pelasgic and Semitic forms. We mayadd, that this conformation is the same which Prof. Blumenbach refers to the Hindoovariety, in his triple classification of the Egyptian
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