. 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 . ! Osburn terms them Arvadites; but Birch, refuting both CARRIED THROUGH EGYPTIAN MONUMENTS 161 Fio. opinions, puts these people down as Cappadocians, or Leuco-Syrians;which seems more rational, did not an elephants tooth suggest somegeographical obstacle. The man leads an animal—disputed, whetherit is a bear or lion, the drawing being so very defective. He alsocarries an
. 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 . ! Osburn terms them Arvadites; but Birch, refuting both CARRIED THROUGH EGYPTIAN MONUMENTS 161 Fio. opinions, puts these people down as Cappadocians, or Leuco-Syrians;which seems more rational, did not an elephants tooth suggest somegeographical obstacle. The man leads an animal—disputed, whetherit is a bear or lion, the drawing being so very defective. He alsocarries an elephants tusk. Morton figures this head as Indo-Semitic,or Indo-Persian; and all attending circumstances assign him a habi-tation between Persia and the Upper Indus. Another from the same scene as the pre-ceding He wears a light dress andstraw hat, and leads an elephant: conditionsindicative of a southern climate. Mortonobserves — This is a yet more strikingHindoo, in whom the dark skin, black eye,delicate features, and fine facial angle, areall admirably marked. The presence ofthe elephant assists us in designating thenational stock, while the straw hat sendsus to the Ganges—or, much nearer, to theIndus ? Peculiar interest attaches to both of the above effigies; the latterof which enables us to ca
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