CAUCASIAN VARIETY. '295 



" A very conipeteiit judge, the learned P. a S. Bartho- 

 i.oMMo, after carefully comparing together the various 

 Egyptian works of art in the rich Italian collections, not 

 only fully admits the justice of my three-fold division, but 

 particularly confirms the strong contrast between tlie Ethio- 

 pian formation and that Hindoo character so v/ell known 

 to him from his long residence in Hindostan *. 



" In accordance with this distinction, long smooth hair 

 1ms been found in some mummies, and short curled hairf 

 in others. 



" The third and commonest kind of form resembles 

 neither of the foregoing, and is characterized by a peculiar 

 bloated habit, swoln and rather loose cheeks, short chin, 

 large projecting eyes, and fleshy body. (See the vignette 

 at the end of the Preface.) I call this the Berber character, 

 because the great analogies which constitute the surest basis 

 for conclusions respecting the descent and affinities of 

 people, viz. those of form, language, and agreement in cus- 

 toms of marked peculiarity, are all here united J." 



I proceed to an osteological examination of the mummy 

 heads ; which, if performed with accuracy and discrimina- 

 tion, will supply us v/ith sure data, as far as they go. We 

 shall find that the bodies thus preserved have the charac- 

 ters of the Caucasian variety ; and we shall hardly discover, 

 among a great multitude of examples, a single unequivocal 

 instance of Negro formation. 



In his Decades Craniorum, No. I. and XXXI., Blu men- 

 bach has represented two Egyptian skulls. The first 

 bears no marks of Ethiopian origin, nor does the author 

 assign to it any such characters. " In universum hujus 

 cranii habitus eundum characterem prae se ferre videtur, 

 quern et ingentia iEgyptiacje artis veteris opera spirant, 

 non quidem elegantem et pulchellum, ast magnum.'' p. 13. 



* ^ Stat ergo ea Veritas, prsEter iEthiopicum vultum in Egypto, ej usque 

 mumiis et monumentis, adrnittendum esse characterem quendam Indicuui, 

 qui Egyptiis non minus gentilitius et nativus est qu im /Ethiopicus." 



+ For this fact Gryphius is quoted. 



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