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The first of these divisions evidently corresponds 

 with the line of Cushite migration of Genesis, extend- 

 ing from Shinar through Southern Arabia, Nubia, 

 and Ethiopia, and of which the negroes are apparently 

 degraded members pushed in advance of the others, 

 while the populations of Pun and Kesh, the southern 

 Arabians and their relatives in Africa, closely re- 

 semble, as figured in the monuments, the Egyptians 

 themselves. 



The second group of the Egyptian classification 

 represents those so-called Aryan peoples of Europe 

 and its islands, and parts of Northern Africa, of 

 whom the Greeks are a typical race, and who in 

 Genesis are said to have possessed the ' Isles of the 

 Gentiles ' ; though in the wave of migration from 

 the east they were in many places preceded by 

 non-Aryan races, Pelasgians, Iberians, &c., possibly 

 wandering Hamitic tribes, while they were also in- 

 vaded by that scattering abroad of the Phoenician 

 Canaan ites referred to in Genesis. They are repre- 

 sented in the monuments as people with European 

 features, fair complexions, and sometimes fair hair 

 and blue eyes. 



The third group is the most varied of the whole, 

 because its seat in Syria was a meeting-place of many 

 tribes. Its most ancient members, the Phoenicians 

 and allied nations, were, according to the monuments, 

 men resembling the Egyptian and Cushite type, and 

 these, no doubt, were those pre-Semitic and pre- 

 historic nations of Canaan referred to in the remark- 



