. 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 . the large and irregularly-formed nose, wide mouth,and a certain harshness of expression, which is character-istic of the same people in all their varied who are familiar with the Southern Highlanders(of Scotland) may recognize a speaking But the interest in them is greatly en-hanced by cuneiform discovery. Here are the same Tokkari, fromAssyrian monuments of the age
. 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 . the large and irregularly-formed nose, wide mouth,and a certain harshness of expression, which is character-istic of the same people in all their varied who are familiar with the Southern Highlanders(of Scotland) may recognize a speaking But the interest in them is greatly en-hanced by cuneiform discovery. Here are the same Tokkari, fromAssyrian monuments of the age of Senna-cherib, about b. c. It is, to say the least, a very remarkablefact, that we find upon Egyptian monu-ments, beginning from the XVTIth dy-nasty, b. c. 1600, portraits in profusion,corresponding in all particulars with theblond races of Europe, whose writtenhistory opens as far west as Gaul andGermany: and now Assyrian sculpturespresent us with the same blond races inthe Vllth and VHIth century before ourera. When the two races first met in Europe,the blond from the south-east and the darkfrom the west, they encountered each otheras natural enemies, and a severe struggle Fig. SPECIFIC TIPES — CAUCASIAN. 109 ensued. The Gaels finally forced their way into Spain, and esta-blished themselves there; became more or less amalgamated withthe darker occupants, and were called the Celt-Iberians. These twotypes have ever since been commingling; but a complete fusion hasnot taken place, and the types of each are still clearly pristine population of the British Isles was probably Iberian;and their type is still beheld in many of the dark-haired, dark-eyedand dark-skinned Irish, as well as occasionally in Great Britain itself. The enormous antiquity of the Iberians in Europe is admitted onall hands; but their origin has been a subject of infinite type, both moral and physical, is so entirely distinct from thatof the ancient fair-skinned immi
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