. 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 . inverted cones, precisely like those now worn by the Negroes of Madagascar, as figured inBottellers Voyage. In the midst of the vanquished Africans, standing in his car and urging on the conflict,is Rameses himself; whose manly and beautiful countenance will not suffer by comparisonwith the finest Caucasian models. The annexed outline (for all the figures are representedin outline only), will ena
. 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 . inverted cones, precisely like those now worn by the Negroes of Madagascar, as figured inBottellers Voyage. In the midst of the vanquished Africans, standing in his car and urging on the conflict,is Rameses himself; whose manly and beautiful countenance will not suffer by comparisonwith the finest Caucasian models. The annexed outline (for all the figures are representedin outline only), will enable the reader to form his own conclusions respecting this extra-ordinary group, which dates in the fourteenth century before the Christian Fio. ABORIGINAL RACES OF AMERICA. 271 The authors confidently trust, that the antiquity of Negro races,no less than the permanence of Negro types, during the (1853 + 2348)4201 years that have just elapsed since Ushers Flood, are questionsnow satisfactorily set at rest in the minds of lettered and scientificreaders. A parable, thrown back among our notes,357 suffices to illus-trate popular impressions in regard to the cuticular and osteologicalchanges produced by climate, and in respect to the philological meta-morphoses caused by transplantation, upon human races aboriginallydistinct. It is not incumbent upon us to inquire, whether the delu-sions, generally current upon such very simple matters of fact, areto be ascribed to intellectual apathy among the taught, or to ignoranceand mystifications among their teachers. At the close of Chapter VI. (supra, p. 210), in reference to the per-manency of Asiatic and African types in their respective geographicalgradations, we asked, Within human rec
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