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entered into the ancient records of India : their earliest legends are 

 interwoven with, or parallelized by, those of Greece ; insomuch that, when 

 Alexander invaded India, he found abundant sources of analogy, in the 

 19] theogonies of the Indians and of his 



own country, to amuse his veterans. 

 (For some interesting historical de- 

 tails on the subject, see Lieut. Col. 

 Todd's " Comparison of the Hindu 

 and Theban Hercules," Trans. Royal 

 Asiatic Soc. vol. iii. p. 139.) 



The annexed sketch (fig. 1 9 1 ) is the 

 skull of a native of Hindostan, which 

 can only be r.eferred to the Cauca- 

 sian model. It is of light and deli- 

 cate structure, rather globular, with 



Skull of native of Hindostan. i n i i 



a prominent occiput, and small cheek 



bones. A large os triquetrum intervenes between the occipital and pa- 

 rietal bones, but this is merely accidental. 



The characters of the Hindoo people may be thus summed up : 

 In stature they are moderate, or under the middle size ; their complexion 

 is yellow, with a tinge of bronze ; their figure is delicate and slender ; 

 the nose is straight and well formed, never flattened, nor with patulous 

 nostrils ; the mouth is moderate, the lips are thin ; the chin is round, and 

 generally dimpled ; the eyes are large, with arched brows, and long eye- 

 lashes ; the iris is usually black ; the cornea somewhat yellowish ; the 

 ears are of moderate size, and well made, but often distorted with heavy 

 ornaments ; the hands and feet are small ; the palms of the hands are 

 nearly white ; the skin is fine ; the hairs of the head are long, black, fine, 

 and glossy ; the beard, except on the upper lip, is scanty. Of the 

 people inhabiting the Dukhun, Colonel Sykes states that they have the 

 Georgian form of skull, a low stature, and a complexion of brown, 

 with shades running into yellow white in the higher classes, and black 

 in the lower. 



MIZRAIMIC BRANCH. The observations on this branch of the Japetic 

 stock, to which is here appropriated the distinctive epithet Mizraimic, 

 may be commenced by a brief notice of the ancient Egyptians. 



The Egyptians of antiquity, respecting whose race and affinities so 

 many opinions have been hazarded, and who have, by some, been regarded 

 as of Negro lineage, or, at least, as appertaining to that division of the 

 human family, are to be referred if the skulls of the mummies still 

 preserved, and the character of the hair, constitute a criterion to the 

 Japetic stock. 



Herodotus, indeed, assigns to them the physical peculiarities of the 



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