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the bearded stock: 1. Taken from an Egyptian mummy, 

 evidently not of the Memphian people, for that is clearly 

 exhibited in the head of another mummy, figured by Mr. 

 Pettigrew. 2. Is an Assyrian, taken from the bas-reliefs 

 of Nineveh; and 3, From a relief at Nakshi Rustum, re- 

 presenting an ancient Persian. The same characteristic 

 aspect is likewise predominant in Thraco-Pelasgian, espe- 

 cially Etrusco-Roman heads. 



PLATE XIII. 



Exemplifies an abnormal family of tribes. We figure 

 a Bushman, once a private soldier in the Cape Rifles, and a 

 young woman servant, of the same race ; both, like all the 

 Hottentot nations, are known by their pale yellow colour. 

 They are from drawings of Captain Nelson, R. E. 



PLATE XIV. 



Cutthroak, a, man and a woman of Fernando Po, ap- 

 parently of Guanche race, both from drawings of the late 

 Captain Filmore, R. N. 



PLATE XV. 



A Nubian young woman, from a drawing by a British 

 Officer ; and an Ababdi Arab or rather Nubian. Both re- 

 present the ancient Nubian race, but further deteriorated 

 by Negro interunion. 



PLATE XVI. 



Cafuse Brazilian; hybrid between Negro and Cayopa 

 tribe of Indian blood, compared with a Jamaule Negro of 



