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accurate repraesentat, verum denies incisores exteriores in- 

 feriores, et denies canini modo quern supra indicavi, se ha- 

 bent; distant nimirum Inter se, et in planum sunt atte- 

 nuati *." 



Denon states, of the female mummies, " que leurs che- 

 veux etoient longs et lisses ; que le caractere de la tete de 

 la plupart tenoit du beau style. Je rapportois mie t^te de 

 vicille femme, qui ^toit aussi belle que celles Sibylles de 

 Michel Ange f." 



The embalmed heads from the catacombs of Thebes 

 (Quournah), engraved in the great French work, are of the 

 finest European form, to which their abundant, long, and 

 slightly-flowing hair fully corresponds. There is a male 

 head, with the broad and fully developed forehead, small 

 perpendicular face, and all the contours of our best models J." 

 " L'angle facial se rapproche beaucoup d'un angle droit ; et 

 les dents incisives sont plant^es verticalement, et non in- 

 clin^es ni avancees, comme elles le seroient dans une t6te 

 de Negre.*' The nose is finely arched ; the jaws perpendi- 

 cular ; the mouth and chin well formed. The front and 

 profile views of a female head § are of the same character ; 

 the face completely European, the hair copious, and disposed 

 in small masses or locks, a little turned. The same remarks 

 are applicable to another head ||, of which a section is also 

 exhibited. 



The skulls of four mummies in the possession of Dr. 

 Leach of the British Museum, and casts of three others, 

 agree with those just mentioned in exhibiting a formation 

 not differing from the European, without any trait of Negro 

 character. 



Lastly, so far as osteologlcal proofs go, the question may 

 be considered as completely decided by the strong evidence 

 of CuviER. 



* De Corporis Humani Fabrica; t. i. p. 70, 71. 

 + Voyage, p. 252. 



X Description de I'Egypte ; Antiquities , t. ii. pi. 49. 

 ^ Ibid. pi. 50. II Ibid. pi. 51. 



