. 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 . presented almostthe whole fauna of the Nile on the monuments, yet there were some common animalswhich never appear in sculptures now extant — as the wild ass, the wild boar, & dogs have likewise been left out, because there was no object in drawing [Hist, of the Dog) informs us that a similar variety of grey-hound is very com-mon still in Asia and Africa; and Mr. William A. Glid
. 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 . presented almostthe whole fauna of the Nile on the monuments, yet there were some common animalswhich never appear in sculptures now extant — as the wild ass, the wild boar, & dogs have likewise been left out, because there was no object in drawing [Hist, of the Dog) informs us that a similar variety of grey-hound is very com-mon still in Asia and Africa; and Mr. William A. Gliddon, who has spent years in theIndian Archipelago, informs me that a curl-tailed grey-hound of this form is quitecommon among the Dyaks of Borneo, and among the aboriginal inhabitants of the Ma-layan peninsula. They make good hunting dogs. Color—dark brown, with black species of grey-hound given in the above sketch is often repeated on the monu-ments of the IVth, Vth, and Vlth dynasties, with precisely the same characters—long,erect ears, curled tail, &c.; only the tail in some specimens is much shorter than inothers, having evidently been cut. Fig. Fig. Wolf. Hyena. Fig. For the instruction of orthodox naturalists, who derive all canidce from the Noachianpair of wolves, we submit the grandsire (Fig. 238) of thesaid lupine couple, who was alive in Egypt 3400 years b. c;together with one of their hyena uncles (Fig. 239); and ajackal (Fig. 240)—their cousin in perhaps the forty-second degree. The scarcity of documents from the IVth to the end ofthe Xlth dynasty, compels us to descend to the Xllth —2400-2100 years b. c. Here we stand, not merely at apoint which is several centuries before the birth of Abraham ; but, at a day when, if
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