. 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 . Fia. may even, perhaps, approach the Himalayan range. They are fromthe Grand Procession of Thotmes HI., in the sixteenth centuryb. c, to be elucidated hereinafter. He (Fig. 48) leads an elephant, which, like that on the Obelisk ofNimroud,1*3 points towards Hindostanic intercourse; and his features,surmounted by the straw hat, are peculiarly Hindoo. The other (Fig. 49) carries an elephants to
. 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 . Fia. may even, perhaps, approach the Himalayan range. They are fromthe Grand Procession of Thotmes HI., in the sixteenth centuryb. c, to be elucidated hereinafter. He (Fig. 48) leads an elephant, which, like that on the Obelisk ofNimroud,1*3 points towards Hindostanic intercourse; and his features,surmounted by the straw hat, are peculiarly Hindoo. The other (Fig. 49) carries an elephants tooth, at the same timethat he leads a bear—by Morton denominated an Ursus Labiatus—and a certain Arian cast of countenance favors the vague geogra-phical attribution we adopt for him. Finally, to establish the diversity ofAsiatic types, in every age parallel withthe Jewish, here is a Tartar (Fig. 50) fromthe conquests of Ramses H.,U1 painted atAboosimbel in the fourteenth century b. face is unmistakeable; as are those ofhis associates, some of whom wear theirhair long, in the same tableau. The question of the Chinese (un-known to any nation west of the Euphratesprior to the Christian era,) has
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