. 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 . s, placed dia-gonally on the thorax in front; but the same autho-rity also declares, there are 130 embalmed Egyptianheads in the collection of the Academy, but none ofthem can be even approximately dated; whence thegreat interest that attaches itself to the present And finally, on the 23d of January, 1852,the whole of these archaeological facts have been con-firmed, at New Orleans, b
. 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 . s, placed dia-gonally on the thorax in front; but the same autho-rity also declares, there are 130 embalmed Egyptianheads in the collection of the Academy, but none ofthem can be even approximately dated; whence thegreat interest that attaches itself to the present And finally, on the 23d of January, 1852,the whole of these archaeological facts have been con-firmed, at New Orleans, by the personal investiga-tion of Monsieur J. J. Ampere, whose opinions inEgyptology are Mr. Gliddon pointed outto me, on this corpse, the only absolute confirmation,he says, of Scripture, with which long studies ofEgyptian lore have made him personally male mummies comply with the ordinances ofGenesis xli. 14 ; and with Gen. xvii. 11; Exod. iv. 25—but Got-thothis illustrates the accuracy of Eze-kiels description of an Egyptian — xvi. 26; andxxiii. 19, 20. These Figs., 268 and 269, are copies of the mummy-casesone is gilt; but bitumen had obliterated the Inner Shell. Outer Case. The face of the inner That the influx of Asiatics into the Valley of the Nile commencedlong before the foundation of the Empire under Menes — that is,prior to b. c. 4000 — there can be no further question ; and that amal-gamations of foreign with the Niles domestic races commenced at apre-historic epoch, is now equally certain. Hence it is evident, thatit must be often impossible to define some crania of these blendedEgyptian races with precision, so great is the intermixture of primi-tive types. The facts however, drawn by Morton from the monu-ments and crania, prove, that the Egyptians-proper possessed small,elongated heads, with receding foreheads, and an average internalcapacity of 80 cubic inches. Such view is fortified by the resem-blance of this type t
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