. 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 . llahs of Lower Egypt at the present day, wherethe Arab cross is strong. Indeed, they greatly resemble the livingmixed race, who now make Miotic bricks, every day, at Cairo, exactlyas these brickmakers did 3500 years ago, and think nothing of it. Finally â if these brickmakers are claimed to be Israelites, we canhave no objection, because their efligies will corroborate the perma-nence of the Jewi
. 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 . llahs of Lower Egypt at the present day, wherethe Arab cross is strong. Indeed, they greatly resemble the livingmixed race, who now make Miotic bricks, every day, at Cairo, exactlyas these brickmakers did 3500 years ago, and think nothing of it. Finally â if these brickmakers are claimed to be Israelites, we canhave no objection, because their efligies will corroborate the perma-nence of the Jewish type for 3500 years: if they be not, to us theyanswer just as wellâbeing tacit witnesses of the durability of Semiticfeatures in particular, no less than proofs of one more form of ancientCaucasian types in general. The next head (Fig. 87), we now submit, is really out of place amongour Caucasian group; but, from the mans associations, he may havea position here. We are induced to portray his singular type foranother reason: viz., that, being represented in the same picture withforeign allies, as well as with native Egyptian soldiers, it serves to CARRIED THROUGH EGYPTIAN MONUMENTS, 1G3. illustrate the correctness of Egyptian out- FlG- 87- line drawing, and also the minute knowledgetheir artists had of various types of man-kind at that early day. The people ofwhom this is a sample have heen reputedby many to be ancient Chinese. There aremuch better reasons for believing them tobe Tartar tribes; which form the geogra-phical link between Mongols and Cauca-siansâ aboriginal consanguinity with eitherexcluded. Morton took this head for Mongolian; and too hastily adoptedancient Egypto-Chinese connexions, on the faith of certain pseudo-antique Chinese vases; which, not manufactured prior to a. , could not have been found in Theban tombs shut up 2000years before. Under the heading of Alphabetical Origins, our Supplementestablishes that the Chinese, before the Christian era,
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