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veral countries where they are to be found, arts and fciences ; the 

 fame reafon, for- which, Diodorus Siculus fays, the Egyptians dei- 

 fied their firfl Kings. 



Images of black men with woolly hair, being worfhipped as Gods 

 in India, is not, to my great furprife, taken notice of by any of the 

 writers, thac I have mentioned, upon the fubjed of Egypt and In- 

 dia, though, I think, it proves mofl clearly, that it was the Egyp- 

 tians, who imported a religion, arts, and fciences, into India. Na- 

 tions, and the races of men, are diftinguiflied by their bodies, as 

 well as by their minds, and particularly by the colour of their bo- 

 dies, and alfo by the colour, form, and figure, of their hair: And in 

 that way, at this day, are the negroes of Africa diftinguiflied, not 

 only from the nations of Europe, but from the nations of Afia, 

 and even from the Indians, who, as I have faid, indeed are black, 

 not fo black, however, as the negroes of Africa, but are not wool- 

 ly haired. And this diftindion, betwixt the Egyptians and other 

 nations, was as well known in the days of Herodotus, as it is now : 

 For, he tells us, that the Colchians, a colony left by Sefoftris upon 

 the Euxine Sea, were known to be of Egyptian origin, by their 

 having woolly hair *. And the fame author tells us, that of the 

 iEthiopians, (under which name the antients comprehended all black 

 men), thofe, who inhabited Lybia, were of all men the moft woolly 

 haired. Now thefe Lybian or African woolly haired men certainly 

 comprehended the Egyptians, and thofe whom we now call negroes: 

 Whereas the eaftern ^tliiopians, Herodotus fays, were ftraight haired 

 men. Of the hair of the Indians he fays nothing. But Strabo has 

 informed us of many particulars concerning the Indians, and among 

 others, he has told us, in exprefs words, that they were Jut^.^^s?, or 

 Jlraight haired f . 



And 

 * See Herodot. lib. 7. cr.p. 70. ; alfo the Note {X) at the bottom of p. 144. of vol. 

 3. of this work. 

 ■ f Strabo, lib. 15- p- 6^6. marked on the margin. 



