. 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 . Fio. 392 HYBRIDITY OF ANIMALS, shall introduce here one specimen (Fig. 250) of a group of four Egyptian wolves,figured by Lepsius, from tombs of the IVth dynasty (about 3400 years n. a). TheseNilotic animals, which are different in species from European, are repeatedly seen,on sculptures of every epoch, sometimes chased by dogs, at other times caught intraps; in short, accompanied by so
. 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 . Fio. 392 HYBRIDITY OF ANIMALS, shall introduce here one specimen (Fig. 250) of a group of four Egyptian wolves,figured by Lepsius, from tombs of the IVth dynasty (about 3400 years n. a). TheseNilotic animals, which are different in species from European, are repeatedly seen,on sculptures of every epoch, sometimes chased by dogs, at other times caught intraps; in short, accompanied by so many corroborating circumstances as to leave nodoubt that they were nothing but wild wolves. They are often depicted on the samemonuments with dogs, ever perfectly contrasted. Bull-dogs (0. Molossus.) The term molossus has been rather vaguely applied by writers; but the type of thebull-dog is well understood. It is skilfully portrayed on a piece of antique Greeksculpture in the Vatican. M. de Blainville (in his Osteographie, Canis, p. 74), statesthat the form and expression of the head are perfectly characteristic, even to thepeculiar arrangement of the teeth. This species, too, is yet the common dog ofAlba
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