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where a foreign is attempted to be engrafted upon a native type
aboriginally suited to tbe local climate. Tbe Fellahs of Upper and
Middle Egypt, at the present day, cóntinue to be an unmistakeable
race, and are regarded by most travelled authorities as tbe best living
representatives of the ancient population of Egypt. [Mr. Gliddon, resident
in Egypt for more than twenty years, may certainly be accepted
as competent authority respecting the physical characteristics' of tbe
present inhabitants, whose idioms and customs in all their ramifications
have been familiar to him from boyhood. He assures us, that
the predominant type of the modern Fellah, i. e., peasant (deducting
Arab blood), is just as identical with the majority of portraits on the
earliest monuments, as Morton concluded by comparing the crania of
ancient mummies with Fellah-skulls from the present cemeteries.
To render the latter point obvious, we subjoin, from the Crania
¿Egyptiaca, an authentic series of both. The practised eye of the
anatomist will at once recognize the similitudes between' the ancient
and the modern heads, and detect in these last the osteological
divergences produced by Arab infiltrations: —
- F ig . 147.
Ancient Crania, “ from the front of Northern Brick Pyramid of Dashour.”
Fig. 148.
Ancient Crania, from Thebes; by Morton termed “ Negroid Heads!” whereas to us they
yield rather the Old Egyptian type.
F ig. 149.
Modern Skulls — “ the Fellahs,” of Lower Egypt.
Fig . 150.
Modern Skulls — “ the Arabs; Bédawees of the Isthmus of Suez.
F ig. 151.
Modern Skulls — “ the Copts;” from their Christian cemeteries.
With these positive data before him, the reader will be the better
able to follow our general argument. — J. 0.1ST.]
But we have not yet done with the Egyptian Type as understood
by Morton; which, although without question popularly prevalent
upder the Hew Empire, was not, we think, the predominant type of