. 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 . subjects, we deem ourselves peculiarly unfortunate that theDenkmaler, so far as its livraisons have reached us, has not yet com-prised copies of these newly-discovered bas-reliefs. We are unable,at present, therefore, to demonstrate to the reader, by the reproductionof portraits of Queen Candace and her mulatto court, the true causeswhy the civilization of Meroe declined, and finally became extin
. 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 . subjects, we deem ourselves peculiarly unfortunate that theDenkmaler, so far as its livraisons have reached us, has not yet com-prised copies of these newly-discovered bas-reliefs. We are unable,at present, therefore, to demonstrate to the reader, by the reproductionof portraits of Queen Candace and her mulatto court, the true causeswhy the civilization of Meroe declined, and finally became extin-guished : viz., owing to Negro amalgamations, during the first centu-ries of our era. This fact may serve as a topic for some futureAppendix to our volume. To obviate, however, any argu-ment respecting Meroite affinitieswith regard to Negro races in ante-rior times, we reproduce the portraitof Manethos Ethiopian sovereign,Tirhaka (supra, p. 151, Fig. 71); theMelek-KUSA, or Cushite king (2Kings, xix. 9); contemporary with theAssyrian Sennacherib, whose like-ness has also been submitted underour Fig. 27 (supra, p. 130.) Nor did the high-caste lineamentsof these Ethiopian princes, and Fig. NEGRO TYPES, 2G5 the total absence of Nigritian elements in the physiognomies of allMeroites, as known in 1844, escape Mortons His com-ments on the accompanying effigies from Meroe suffice. Fig. Fio.
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