. 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 . The above figures, which may be seen, in plates on a folio scale,in the great works of Belzoni, Champollion, Rosellini, Lepsius, andothers, are copied, with corrections, from the smaller work of They display the Rot, the Namu, the Nalisu, andthe Tamhu, as the hieroglyphical inscription terms them; and al-though the effigies we present are small, they portray a specimen ofea
. 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 . The above figures, which may be seen, in plates on a folio scale,in the great works of Belzoni, Champollion, Rosellini, Lepsius, andothers, are copied, with corrections, from the smaller work of They display the Rot, the Namu, the Nalisu, andthe Tamhu, as the hieroglyphical inscription terms them; and al-though the effigies we present are small, they portray a specimen ofeach type with sufficient accuracy to show that four races were verydistinct 3300 years ago. We have here, positively, a scientific quad-ripartite division of mankind into Med, Yellow, Black, and Whiteyantedating Moses; whereas, in the Xth chapter of Genesis, the sym-bolical division of Siiem, Ham, and Japhet, is only tripartite—theBlack being entirely omitted, as proved in Part II. of this volume. The appellative Rot applies exclusively to one race, viz., theEgyptian; but the other designations may be somewhat generic, eachco*ering certain groups of races, as do our terms Caucasian, Mongol,&a
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