F ig . 47. P ía . 48.
may even, perhaps, approach the Himalayan range. They are from
the “ Grand Procession ” of T hotmes HI., in the sixteenth century
b . c., to he elucidated hereinafter.
He (Fig. 48) leads an elephant, which, like that on the Obelisk of
Mmroud,113 points towards Hindostanic intercourse; and his features,
surmounted hy the straw hat, are peculiarly Hindoo.
The other (Fig. 49) carries an elephant’s tooth, at the same time
that he leads a hear—hy M orton denominated an Ursus Labiatus —
and a certain Arian cast of countenance favors the, vague geogra-
phical attribution we adopt for him.
Finally,, to establish the diversity of
Asiatic types, in every age parallel with
the Jewish, here is a Tartar (Fig. 50) from
the conquests of R am se s H . ,m‘ painted at
Aboosimbel in the fourteenth century b . c.
His face is unmistakeahle; as are those of
his associates, some of whom wear their
hair long, in the same tableau.
The question of the “ Chinese” (unknown
to any nation west of the Euphrates
prior to the Christian era,) has been settled
Fig . 50.
in our Supplement; and it suffices here to note that, the custom
of shaven heads, with scalp-lock, is essentially Tartar. The Chinese
always wore their hair long until compelled to shave their heads by
the present dynasty of Mantchou-Tartars;145 and the Turkish branch
of those hordes introduced this usage in the modern Levant.
Reader! we have followed the Chaldaie type from Mesopotamia to
Memphis; and thence, via Carthage, through Palestine, Syria, Arabia,
Assyria, and Persia, until it disappeared; when, looking towards the
Caspian and the Indus, we descried the cradle-lands of Arian, Tartar,
and Hindoo races. May we not now consider permanence of type
among JEWS, for more than 3000 years, to be a matter proved ? and
with it, the simultaneous existence in the same countries of every
variety of type and race visible there now, ever distinct during the
same period ?
The monuments of Egypt and Assyria, history and the Bible, have
enabled us to ascend to the age of A br ah am , first historical progenitor
of the Israelitish line, and demonstrate the indelibility of the Jewish
type from his era downwards. The sculptures of the IVth dynasty
have also exhibited the admixture, or engraftment of the same
Chaldaie type upon native families of Egypt at a date which is some
2000 years beyond Abraham’s era upwards.
' Other analogical proofs will ‘appear in the sequel; hut, in the interim,
the Jews themselves are living testimonies that their type has
survived every vicissitude; and that it has come down, century hy
century, from Mesopotamia to Mobile, for at least 5500 years, unaltered
and, save through blood-alliance with Gentiles, unalterable.
C H A P T E R Y.
THE CAUCASIAN TYPES CARRIED THROUGH EGYPTIAN’ MONUMENTS.
In a preceding chapter, portions of the European group, generi-
eally styled the “ Caucasian,” were traced backwards through historical
times. This sketch was followed hy a resume of the Physical History
of the Jews, whose annals constitute the boundary of written history,
hy supplying the most ancient literary link that connects us with
remoter monumental periods. We now propose to track this Caucasian
type onwards, through the stone records of Egypt, up to the
earliest of such documents extant.
The incipient history of the Israelites is indissolubly woven with
that of Egypt; nor could we separate the two if we would. Although
the earliest positive synchronism, or ascertained era of contact, between
these people, is the year 971 b . c. ; viz.: the conquest of Judsea