. 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 . ains to thereign of Sargan, b. c. 710-668. It is a solitary figure of a beardlessNegro with woolly hair, wounded, and in the act of imploring mercyfrom the Assyrians. Turn we now to Roman authority. Latin description of a Negress, written early in thesecond century after c. Interdum clamat Cybalen; erat unica custos ;Afra genus, tota patriam testante figura;Torta comam, labroque tumens, et fusca
. 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 . ains to thereign of Sargan, b. c. 710-668. It is a solitary figure of a beardlessNegro with woolly hair, wounded, and in the act of imploring mercyfrom the Assyrians. Turn we now to Roman authority. Latin description of a Negress, written early in thesecond century after c. Interdum clamat Cybalen; erat unica custos ;Afra genus, tota patriam testante figura;Torta comam, labroque tumens, et fusca colorem;Pectore lata, jacens mammis, compressior alvo,Cruribus exilis, spatiosa prodiga planta;Continuis rimis calcanea scissa rigebant. In the meanwhile he calls Cybale. She washis only [house-] keeper. African by race, herwhole face attesting her father-land: with crispedhair, swelling lip, and blackish complexion ; broadin chest, with pendant dugs, [and] very contractedpaunch ; her spindle-shanks [contrasted with her]enormous feet; and her cracked heels were stiffenedby perpetual clefts. Egyptian delineation of a Negress,cut and painted some 1600 yearsbefore the Latin description. Fig. To Mr. Gustavus A. Myers, (an eminent lawyer of Richmond, Va.,;are we indebted for indicating to us this unparalleled description of aNegress; no less than for the loan of the volume in which an un-applied passage of Virgil321 is contained. Through it we perceivethat, in the second century after c, the physical characteristics of afield, or agricultural, Nigger were understood at Rome 1800years ago, as thoroughly as by cotton-planters in the State of Ala-bama, still flourishing in a. d. 1853. Time, as every one now can see, has effected no alteration, even bytransfer to the New World, upon African types (save through amalga-mation) for 3400 years downwards. Let us inquire of the Old conti-nent what metamorphoses time may have caused, as regards suchalleged transmutations, upwards. About
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