Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . general terms, the course of the the supposed one at the southwest angleof the peninsula. The real Semitic linewas carried into the continent about theparallel of twenty-four degrees north,across Middle Egypt, and almost directlywest into the Great Desert. The migra-tion of the Ishmaelites in this directionappears to have extended as far as theImoshag races, to the southwest of 468 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. Fezzan ; a
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . general terms, the course of the the supposed one at the southwest angleof the peninsula. The real Semitic linewas carried into the continent about theparallel of twenty-four degrees north,across Middle Egypt, and almost directlywest into the Great Desert. The migra-tion of the Ishmaelites in this directionappears to have extended as far as theImoshag races, to the southwest of 468 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. Fezzan ; and this point may be regardedas the extreme landward progress of theSemitic race south of the Mediterra-nean. In general, the modern Arabs areregarded as the lineal descendants of theIshmaelitic branch of the Semitic the main, this opinion is verified by extent the Joktanian influence of laterages. Finally, in the north and west ofArabia, the immigrant Ishmaelites over-came and subordinated all the peoplesthat had previously occupied the antipathy between Shem and Ham,however, was never great—except inmatters of religious dogma and cere-. ARAFAT DURING A PILGRIMAGE (LAND OF OPHIR).—Drawn by D. Lancelot, from a photograph. the facts in possession of the ethnogra-pher and historian. But the Arab char-Composite race acter is, to a Considerabletol^p^J^ extent, composite. Several^ ethnic eleraents have con- tributed to its formation. The Ham-itic race, especially in the southern partof the peninsula, underlay the nationaldevelopment of subsequent times. Withthis oldest stock was blended to some monial. For this reason the original in-habitants, already a composite people inArabia Felix, may be supposed to havecontributed not a little to the ultimateformation of that type known in moderntimes as Arabian. But the dominantstock, at least in the important regionsbordering the Red sea from Suez toYemen, was Ishmaelitic in its origin,anddevelopment. DISTRIB
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