. 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 . N ?. EGYPT AND EGYPTIANS. 245 Dear Morton : This is the fourth day I have been in the land of the Pharaohs Well, now for the Egyptian problem. Your October letter is now before me, and the left-hand drawing bears a most aston-ishing resemblance to my long-legged valet, AH! (whom I intend to get daguerreotyped, ifauch a thing can be found at Cairo). The Robber Race has swept away everything atAlex
. 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 . N ?. EGYPT AND EGYPTIANS. 245 Dear Morton : This is the fourth day I have been in the land of the Pharaohs Well, now for the Egyptian problem. Your October letter is now before me, and the left-hand drawing bears a most aston-ishing resemblance to my long-legged valet, AH! (whom I intend to get daguerreotyped, ifauch a thing can be found at Cairo). The Robber Race has swept away everything atAlexandria; — nevertheless, by means of a specimen here and there, I had not been threehours in the country before I arrived at the conclusion, that the ancient Egyptians wereneither Malays nor Hindoos, but . Egyptians Yours, truly, Charles Pickering. So inferred Champollion-le-Jeune ;303 so pronounced Morton,after a formal recantation of his published views; so, finally anddeliberately, think the authors of this volume; viz.: that the primi-tive Egyptians were nothing more nor less than — EGYPTIANS. Objectors must restrict themselves henceforward merely to cavils asto the antiquity of these Egypti
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