promoted the scientific interests of our work, will find in it due
acknowledgment of their courtesies. For the free use of the collection
of Egyptological works—the best accessible to the public in
this country — belonging to the Philadelphia Library Company, Dr.
Morton’s brother-in-law, Mr. J ohn J a y S m it h , will accept my sincere
thanks.
The Publishers state, on another page, the endeavor made to
furnish our Subscribers with counter-value for their subscriptions far
in excess of my original promises; and with these brief expository
remarks my pen would stop, did not personal gratitude claim
expression.
Those acquainted with my earlier life, (spent in the Levant until
the age of thirty-two) may, perhaps, read some portions of this
volume with feelings of surprise at the range of studies once so alien
to my vocations, prospects, and ambition. By way of explanation
let me state, that, whatever may have been the ground-work previously
laid for the prosecution of self-culture, there was one obstacle
to progress whioh would have been insurmountable, when (one among
the million seeking freedom) I re-landed in the United States (1842),
but for the friendship of a gentleman who — unlike Pharaoh’s chief
butler that did not “ remember Joseph, but forgat him”—had known
me in illo Hempore at Memphis. The munificence of Mr. 14. 3L
H a ig h t of Hew York obviated all difficulty by placing the necessary
materials for study at my disposal; and not content with facilitating
the attainment of my desires by his encouraging acts at home, Mr.
Haight, on two occasions, enabled me to seek instruction, abroad, at
the fountain-sources of Paris, London, and Berlin. The pulsations
of a grateful heart, and the hope that some readers may deem favors
so magnanimous not uselessly bestowed, are the only reciprocities
that can at present be tendered to him by
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P h il a d e l p h ia , 1 s t Jan., 1 8 5 4 .
P O S T S C R I P T U M .
BY J . C. NOTT.
I have just received from Philadelphia proof-sheets of the above
Preface, and hasten to add a few words.
Above three hundred and sixty wood-cuts, besides many lithographic
plates, adorn this, volume, and upon them, to some extent,
depend its value and success. The reader can well imagine the
immense labor and heavy expense required to prepare a sériés of
illustrations of this kind, wherein minute accuracy is so indispensable,
and where such accuracy can be attained only through long-continued
and patient industry combined with high artistic skill. So
great, indeed, were the difficulties to be overcome, that the authors
could never for a moment have entertained the idea of publishing a
work like “ Types of Mankind,” had it not been for the aid generously
proffered by Mrs. G l id d o n , the accomplished lady of my colleague.
To her amateur pencil are we indebted for the drawings of
more than three hundred of our wood-cuts, together with those for
the lithographed Bèrfin-effigies. .
To say nothing of the outlay which these illustrations must otherwise
have involved, it would have been impossible for us to obtain,
here, an equal conformity to originals through hired artists. Mrs,
Gliddon’s hand was stimulated by no mercenary considerations ; and
we have enjoyed the incalculable advantage of having her near us at
Mobile, for more than twelve months; laboring with us and for us :
ever ready to alter or amend as our caprice, or necessity, might dictate.
Although Mrs. Gliddon was unaccustomed to drawing on
wood, and notwithstanding that the wood-engravers at Philadelphia
(compelled, .owing to the nature of the case, to carve from her
drawings alone without recurrence to the originals), may here and
there have slightly erred, I venture to assert that no scientific work
in our language presents as long, a. series of illustrations more reliable
for faithfulness to originals.
Many of the heads, however, are given in simple outline, and the
majority have required reduction; but persons who are familiar with
the great works of. Rosellini, Champollion, Prisse, Lepsius, Botta,
Flandin, Layard, Dumoutier, &c., from which these figures have
been copied, will at once recognize a truthfulness in Mrs. Gliddon’s
designs (viewed ethnologically) which speaks more than the encomiums
of an admiring friend.
Hor is it proper that I should close this Postscript without some
acknowledgment to her husband. In the first place, it is mere justice
to state, that Parts n . and HI. are almost exclusively his own work.
because, although not uninformed on the points therein treated, and
agreeing in their scientific results, I wish to mention that the materials,
conception, and execution of these portions of our volume are due to
him. Of Part I., on the other hand, a fuller share of responsibility
must fall upon myself. The special province, which I have attempted
to explore, is the Natural History proper of mankind ; and I have
sought to illustratè it through the physical and linguistic history of
primeval races, as deduced from the time-worn monuments of nations