Nilotic or Egyptian Population. ^09 



Conclusions. 



1. The valley of the Nile, both in Egypt and in Nubia, was 

 originally peopled by a branch of the Caucasian race. 



2. These primeval people, since called Egyptians, were the 

 Mizraimites of Scripture, the posterity of Ham, and dkectly 

 affiliated with the Libyan family of nations. 



3. In their physical character, the Egyptians were inter- 

 mediate between the Indo-European and Semitic races, 



4. The Austral-Egyptian or Meroite communities were an 

 Indo-Arabian stock engrafted on the primitive Libyan inha- 

 bitants. 



5. Besides these exotic sources of population, the Egyptian 

 race was at different periods modified by the influx of the 

 Caucasian nations of Asia and Europe, — ^Pelasgi, or Hellenes, 

 Scythians, and Phoenicians. 



6. Kings of Egypt appear to have been incidentally derived 

 from each of the above nations. 



7. The Copts, i^ part at least, are a mixture of the Cauca- 

 sian and the Negro, in extremely variable proportions. 



8. Negroes were numerous in Egypt, but their social posi- 

 tion in ancient times was the same that it now is, that of 

 servants and slaves. 



9. The national characteristics of all these families of man 

 are distinctly figured on the monuments ; and all of them, 

 excepting the Scythians and Phoenicians, have been identified 

 in the catacombs. 



10. The present Fellahs are the lineal and least mixed 

 descendants of the ancient Egyptians ; and the latter are col- 

 laterally represented by the Tuaricks, Kabyles, Siwahs, and 

 other remains of the Libyan family of nations. 



11. The modern Nubians, with a few exceptions, are not 

 the descendants of the monumental Ethiopians, but a variously 

 mixed race of Arabs and Negroes. 



12. Whatever may have been the size of the cartilaginoua 

 portion of the ear, the osseous structure conforms in every 

 instance to the usual relative position. 



13. The teeth difi'er in nothing from those of other Cauca- 

 sian nations. 



