. 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 . positive Nigritian portraits of earlier date, yet it is concededthat Negro tribes were abundant,along the Upper Nile, as far backas the Xllth dynasty; and ergo, theymust have been also contemporarywith the earliest settlers of Egypt. Although Negro races present con-siderable variety in their cranial con-formations, yet they all possess cer-tain unmistakeable traits in common,marking them as Negr
. 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 . positive Nigritian portraits of earlier date, yet it is concededthat Negro tribes were abundant,along the Upper Nile, as far backas the Xllth dynasty; and ergo, theymust have been also contemporarywith the earliest settlers of Egypt. Although Negro races present con-siderable variety in their cranial con-formations, yet they all possess cer-tain unmistakeable traits in common,marking them as Negroes, and dis-tinguishing them from all other spe-cies of man. Prognathous jaws,narrow elongated forms, recedingforeheads, large posterior develop-ment, small internal capacity, &c,characterize the whole group crani-ologically. A few examples suffice to give thereader a good idea of their promi-nent characteristics, and will enablehim to appreciate cranial distinctionsbetween the varied Negro and otherAfrican types. (See Figs. 270-275.) It cannot failFio. to De noticed that the Caffreand the Ash-antee exhibitfar higher con-formation sthan the rest;in accordancewith recenthistorical. Mozambique. Fio. 272.«9
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