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there be a question that the Merdite or Austral-Egyptian communities were composed, at 
least in part, of an Indo-Arabian stock engrafted on the aboriginal Libyan population. 
An able but anonymous author not only asserts the Arab origin of the monumental 
Ethiopians, but endeavours to prove, by an ingenious series of facts and reasonings, that 
they were the “ Blemies of history, a Bejawy branch of the Arabian family ;” that they 
were broken and finally dispersed by the policy of the Roman government, which, in 
the reign of Dioclesian, introduced Negro colonies from Kordofan; and, finally, that the 
Nubians of our day are not, as a nation, descended from the ancient stock. The last 
proposition, as a general rule, is undeniable; but the preceding conclusions are not 
yet susceptible of proof.* 
Convinced as we are that the Egyptians were a distinct and aboriginal people, the 
sentiment of M. Jomard may yet become, to a certain extent, an axiom in ethnography :— 
“T’Arabie a été de tout temps, et elle est encore de nos jours, l’aliment de la population 
Ligyptienne.’’t 
4, THE HINDOOS. 
I observe among the Egyptian crania, some which differ in nothing from the Hindoo 
type either in respect to size or configuration. I have already, in my remarks upon the 
ear, mentioned a downward elongation of the upper jaw, which I have more frequently 
met with in Egyptian and Hindoo heads than in any others, although I have seen it oc- 
casionally in all the races. ‘This feature is remarkable in two of the following five crania, 
(A, B,) and may be compared with a similar form from Abydos. (Plate V., Fig. 2.) 
The Hindoo head is also remarkable for its small size, its narrow form, especially in 
front, and often, also, for the delicacy of the osteological structure. The bones of the face, 
however, project more than those of the European, and there is not unfrequently a mani- 
fest eversion of the upper jaw. (B.) The nose is rather small, and the bones are vari- 
ously aquiline, straight, or moderately compressed. My observations have been made on 
thirty-seven crania, for which Iam indebted to Drs. Burrough and Carson, of this city, 
and to Dr. Martin and Mr. H. Piddington, of Calcutta. Of these, twenty-four are adult, 
varying from eighteen to eighty years of age, and give an average internal capacity of 
but eighty cubic inches; the largest head measuring ninety cubic inches, the smallest 
only sixty-nine.{ They pertain, for the most part, to Jom-caste Bengalees. 
* Edinburgh Review, Vol. LX., p. 297. + Apud Mengin, Hist. de ’Egypte, TIL, p. 406. 
{ T have stated, in my “ Crania Americana,” that the Hindoos appear to have the smallest heads of any existing peo- 
ple; and that in the Inca Peruvians the brain was but a fraction larger. Later observations, however, have led me to 
believe that the Nigritos, or aboriginal Negro race of the Indian archipelago, present a nearly parallel example, 
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