. 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 . C. — Observations on the accompanying Map of the World. 1st. The parts in black indicate what the waiter of Xth Genesisknew not: those shaded represent where his knowledge decreases;it being unfair, no less than impossible, to define his information bya sharp line. Other explanations are given on the Map itself. 2d. The great alteration, which our results superinduce, is the pro-longation of his
. 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 . C. — Observations on the accompanying Map of the World. 1st. The parts in black indicate what the waiter of Xth Genesisknew not: those shaded represent where his knowledge decreases;it being unfair, no less than impossible, to define his information bya sharp line. Other explanations are given on the Map itself. 2d. The great alteration, which our results superinduce, is the pro-longation of his geographical knowledge (hitherto unsuspected) alongthe whole of Barbary, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Saharadesert. Former African delusions are curtailed at the First Cataract,Syene ; southern extremity of the Egyptians, MiTsRIM, proper. Thecompiler of Xth Genesis knew nothing of Ethiopia above; nor isany austral land beyond Egypt mentioned by a single writer in theOld Testament; because Chub (Ezek. xxx. 5), GUB, conjectured byBunsen, after Ewald, to be gNUB, Nubia, is an unnecessary effortwhen wre can identify it with the Barbaresque Cobii of Ptolemy thegeographer [supra, p. 515]. MODERNIZED NOMENCLATURE. 553 3d. The coast of Abyssinia is dotted red and yellow, because someIHJShites, besides the Joktanide, c/UBaL, may have crossed the RedSea. The latter lent his name to the Avalites Sinus, &c, on theAfrican continent. Section D. — The Xth Chapter of Genesis modernized, in itsNomenclature, to display, popularly and in modern English,the meaning of its ancient Writer. Verse 1 Now these (are) the TtoLDTt-BNI-NuKA, (generations of the sons of Ces-sation); SAeM yellow races, KAaM swarthy races, and IaPeT< white 2 races: unto them (were) sons after the deluge.* (The) affiliations of IaPeT*white races; — Crimea = GoMeR, and Caucasus = MaGUG, and Media= MeDI, and Ionia = IUN, and Pontus = T*uBaL, and Moschia = 3 MeSAeK, and Thrace = T/IRaS. And (the) affiliations of
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