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figures partakes, as he says, to a certain degree, of the traits of the 

 two former ; it is characterized by a peculiar turgid habit, flabby cheeks, 

 a short chin, large prominent eyes, and a plump contour of body ; and this 

 he supposes to represent the ordinary form ; the national physiognomy 

 of the people approaches nearly to that of the Berberines. (See Phil. 

 Trans. 1794.) 



That this latter form is to be regarded as typical of the national 

 physiognomy of the Egyptians, is not very palpable. At all events, the 

 facial characters of the statue of Rameses, and of other personages of 



Head of Rameses. 



Egyptian mythology, no less than the sculptured and painted repre- 

 sentations of men and women, seem to us, for the most part, referable 

 to the Hindoo type ; and, indeed, Blumembach gives, as an example, 

 the female figure on the back of Captain Lethieullier's mummy, in the 

 British Museum. A copy of the mutilated statue of Rameses, brought 

 from the ruins of the Memnonium, at Thebes, and now in the British 



