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clear, from the examination and comparison of a 

 great many skulls of Egyptian mummies, that these 

 people belonged to the Caucasian division, and 

 that their cranium and brain were very voluminous 

 when compared with the existing African races. 

 The fact is curious, as a collateral evidence of the 

 position that a contrary form of head is incompa- 

 tible, nationally speaking, with an enlarged mind. 



The Abyssinians appear to be a colony of the 

 Arabians. 



So much of Africa as is within the torrid zone, 

 is presumed to be in possession partially of the 

 Moors, but very generally of the Negroes. Of this 

 large division of the human race, enough perhaps 

 may already have been said. Whatever individual 

 instances may offer against the position, there 

 seems great reason to conclude that it has pleased 

 the Father of all to assign to these people a lower 

 place in the intellectual scale, compared with others 

 of their fellow men, especially when we advert to 

 the stationary condition of their minds through so 

 many ages. A physical obstacle to their progress 

 seems to be a more natural solution of this problem, 

 than any political or local circumstances we can 

 imagine. 



In South Africa there are some varieties of brown 

 or yellowish coloured men. Among these is one, 

 which though, at present but little known, offers to 

 our observations, some peculiarities both physical 

 and moral, not less imposing than any already 

 treated on. This unhappy race has been for a long- 



