DERIVED FROM ANATOMY, HISTORY, AND THE MONUMENTS. 12] 
land at Thebes are described in the following terms:—‘‘ Psammonthes, aged about 45, 
of middle size, dark complexion and handsome figure, bald, round-faced and straight- 
nosed; Snachomneus, aged about 20, of middle size, sallow complexion, round-faced and 
straight-nosed; Semmuthis Persinei, aged about 22, of middle size, sallow complexion, 
round-faced, flat-nosed, and of quiet demeanour; and Tathlyt Persinei, aged about 30, of 
middle size, sallow complexion, round face and straight nose, the four being children of 
Petepsais of the leather-dressers of the Memnonia; and Necheutes the less, the son of 
Azos, aged about 40, of middle size, sallow complexion, cheerful countenance, long face 
and straight nose, with a scar upon the middle of the forehead.”’ In another deed of the 
same epoch, also translated by Dr. Young, an Egyptian named Anophris is described as 
“tall, of a sallow complexion, hollow-eyed and bald.” 
Independently of the value of the other physical characters. preserved in these docu- 
ments, the remarks on complexion have a peculiar interest; for they show that among 
six individuals of three different families, one only had a dark complexion, and that all 
the rest were sallow. 
From the preceding facts, and many others which might be adduced, I think we may 
safely conclude, that the complexion of the Egyptians did not differ from that of the 
other Caucasian nations in the same latitudes. That while. the higher classes, who were 
screened from the action of a burning sun, were fair in the comparative sense, the middle 
and lower classes, like the modern Berbers, Arabs, and Moors, presented various shades 
of complexion, even to a dark and swarthy tint, which the Greeks regarded as black in 
comparison with their own. To these diversities must also be added others incident to 
a vast servile population, derived from all the adjacent nations, among which the sable 
Negro stood forth in bold and contrasted characters: 
Dr. Wiseman, after a critical examination of the evidence in reference to this mooted 
question, has arrived at the following philosophical conclusion :—‘“‘It is not easy to recon- 
cile the conflicting results thus obtained from writers and from monuments, and it is no 
wonder that learned men should have differed widely in opinion on the subject. I should 
think the best solution is, that Egypt was the country where the Greeks most easily 
saw the inhabitants of interior Africa, (the Negroes,) many of whom, doubtless, flocked 
thither and were settled there, or served in the army as tributaries or provincials,.as they 
have done in later times; and thus they came to be confounded by writers mith the country 
where alone they knew them, and were considered part of the indigenous population.’ * 
External Configuration —On this subject I have nothing to add but the following 
external measurements,} (taken with my own hands,) derived from each group, and 
embracing all the denuded adult crania excepting two of the Semitic form. 
* Lectures on the connexion between Science and Revealed Religion, p. 102, 2d edit. 
These remarks will also serve to explain why Aristotle has placed the Egyptians and Negroes in the same national 
category; which is not more surprising than his referring the Thracians to the Mongolian race, and attributing to them a 
red complexion, 
een the superciliary 
t The longitudinal diameter is measured from the most prominent part of the os frontis, betw 
1 to the extreme end of the occiput. 
© parietal diameter is measured between the most distant points of the parietal bones, 
the protuberances of these bones. 
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ridges, 
which are, for the most part, 
