The, hair on some qthei; figures of this group is dressed in short and separate tufts*
inverted cones, precisely like those noy^jworn by the Negroes of Madagascar, as/figurrfna
Botteller’s voyage. , ,
na'Injt^e of'SCPP^quished Africans,,seated in^his car anij^ua^ ^ 'ffl^ ^ .h ^ coxdUot.
is Rameses hirnsglf^.\ghpse manly and beautiful countenance w; i l l y i f c o r n p m
'Son ‘with the finest 'Caucasian models. —The annexed oulline^fdr
represented irLmidi^ only,] will enable tjhe reader'to form his^tivvn-mii^l.iiKw.u^rWp^t-
ing this eÄäordinarygrojip,-whichfis;believed.to date about fifteen hundred-afiasevehty
yearn before the Christian era.
9.1. THE, iMQNGOXIANS.
BBit|has' be,euf'^ntended|4|i^]öepau^r^®ib^hers that the ancient Egyptians were of the
Matf&USHjijiè. I find nothing like Mongolian features in any embalmed head in my
cpllecti® unOps^ solr^ggnqral. resem^anc^oan be traced in a solitary instance from
3Md^|Mi®lnte’X n y h ich,. hoW5PjYer, partakes more obviously of the Semitic
S m |B T h i s , S u s t a i n s ^h&onihieTi. iaf Professor Blumenbach, who in comparing,
the^Egtyptianskiv^ith theise^eraLrace^p&mei^, asserts, that “ they differ from none
i|g|re. t-hah;fram! ther.'Mongolian^,tp ywhicji,. the| Chinese- belong*”*
: That the, Chinese iffS l ^ nmerbial intercourse with the Egyptians in very early times,
is beyond Chinese^jmheMn,, witli^inscriptions in that language,
have-, beei^r!§ s |^ tó a j |ff l^ 'n ; the Theban jcatacombs-t Yet in
MerYÜnstance-.v l^eih|^^\detec^^Iphg1ofian^ on- the monuments, I
tne^fre^(jpiie^ented as^pf^gH^sIflpad}senemies'. The annexed
Witlrthe^small and somewhat^ depressed., nose, shaven
head^alffd$ crown-lock, scanty beard? moustache, and sallow complexion,
seems clearly to indicate afM|ïn^§fi-that;race. It is copied I
i|^ ^ r iw - in § . in;-JCosèl'liffljj in which -Rameses, the^T-hj'|d is re-
ge^msted fighting ag’ainst.tnè’iSAeifc) dïfScytliiififs'among whom]
ffibvMoff^irsiappearftc®.eéallies or mercenaries, ,
REMARKS.
Since the 'physical*, characteristics ' of .the (aricienltf‘«N^l^j|ï,vp.opHlation, as derived
frp iÉ ic tó ^ ^ ^ i^ yÉ ïe :'Imonumentsf‘icëinèfde, in a tKernarfehl©; manner-with the fife#
dfö&ivedifciSbrSi ahatdmiöakc©mparison,di&bec©më§i5iiv tiïê^njÈh|t) place necessary to offer
J$Ë$^xpïanationp3f|these results; or, to show, atfrjyiat-jper'iodS' apd under what circum-
Stp^ncusiseiHeral1 different, branches! of the Caucasian-, ra'ge^w^f.erblended dnto a single nation
possessing more or less th e , characteristics of each,;a|ng this again modified in. degree by
a-nt&Ffeafefdce wholly different1 fronfleistheij.jd;It isfin.the first;, pksgëj necessary to recur to
the fact of the v&T§a tóng ocën|ihSnllME|typ,t. by-* successive; dynasties( of Hykshos or
Shepherd'» kings,, and -that thës^-wejëa-nolb^Spdh’fei.but of ,seyei;al nations—Phenicians,
Eelasgiy andi S'cythia-pb; whilevto these-jfollowed, at avïeng* interval, an Ethiopian or
AustrahEgyptian dynasty, of; these great,revolutions must have, tended in turn
.to the* adfëülgélnationr of thev'Egyptians' with other nations pand this result may be referred
to*three principal epochs; .irïdepéndently, of several subordinate ones.
T he first epoch eiïibracètthfedynasty of the Hy-ks lf s oil shepherd kings, commencing
before Christ two thousand andj eighty, and having a duration of two hundred and sixty
'^ëari!"!§É
Its is important/how.ever?do observe; that Josephus quoting Manetho, makes the Hyk-
'shos dynasty lastffiv&hundfed; and eleven ,yeafrs^; and, the learned Baron Bunsen, whose
yilrMi> has hot yët‘ appeared, extends it tönAOO,Otj beginning R. C. 25144 The shorter
* k*» /Transactions ,of th^Rby^.Soci^^bf L o^on, 1794, p. 193* •
f .Wilkinson’s' A&Ienl! Egyptians,'
J , See'Mrs. Hamilton Gray ?s History of^Mr^riais Y.oli L* .