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2. These primeval people, since called Egyptians, were the Miz- 
raimites of Scripture, the posterity of Ham, and directly associated 
with the Lybian family of nations. 
3. In their physical character, the Egyptians were intermediate be- 
tween the modern European and Semitic races. 
4. The Austral-Egyptian or Meroite communities were an Indo- 
Arabian stock, engrafied on the primitive Lybian inhabitants. 
esides these exotic sources of population, the Egyptian race was 
at different periods modified by the influx of the Caucasian nations of 
Asia and Europe—Pelasgi or Hellenes, Scythians and Pheenicians. 
6. Kings of Egypt appear to have been incidentally derived from 
each of the above nations. 
- The Copts, in part at least, are a mixture of the Caucasian and 
Negro, in extremely variable proportions. 
_ >» Negroes were numerous in Egypt. Their social position in an- 
cient times, was the same that it is now; that of servants or slaves. 
he natural characteristics of all these families of man were dis- 
tinetly figured on the monuments, and all of them, excepting the 
Scythians and Pheenicians, have been identified in the catacombs 
10. The present Fellahs are the lineal and least mixed descendants 
of the ancient Egyptians; and the latter are collaterally represented 
by the Tuaricks, Kabyles, Siwahs, and other remains of the Lybian 
family of nations. , ; 
ll. The modern Nubians, with few exceptions, are not the descend- 
ants of the Monumental Ethiopians; but a variously mixed race of Ara- 
bians and Negroes. : 
_ 12, Whatever may have been the size of the cartilaginous portion 
Of the ear; the osseous structure conforms, in every instance to the 
usual relative position. i 
13. The teeth differ in nothing from those of other Caucasian nations. 
14. The hair of the Egyptians resembles in texture that of the fair- 
est Europeans of the present day. Jig ae 
- The physical or organic characters which distinguish the several 
Faces of men are as old as the oldest records of our species.” 
Such are the inferences to which our president arrived after 
his long and arduous studies. . 
- Morton, Iuseum I have so often alluded to, was 
Maturally led by his ethnological studies to give a portion of his 
thoughts to what is called Egyptology, saan ages | 
erence as regards the fixing of many interesting chronologi- 
Points, , + 3 : 
The strata of the earth having hitherto disclosed no debris of 
Mon and catacombs of the ee of pogcn 0 the 
~tatchs, he might well hope ethnologically to verify specimens 
°F the most ancient date, in his museum. Hence the foundation 
this work, the Crania Aigyptiaca.. Ls 6g 2a a a 
