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to Deboud, in Nubia; and the author has classed the whole series in 

 the following manner : — 



1. Arcto-Egyptians ; under which designation are embraced the 

 purer Caucasian nations, as seen in the Semitic tribes of Western 

 Asia, and the Pelasgic communities of Southern Europe. 



2. Austro-Egyptians, in which the cranium blends the characters 

 of the Hindoo and Southern Arab; which people, in the opinion of 

 the author, were engrafted on the aboriginal population of Ethiopia, 

 and thus gave rise to the celebrated Meroite nations of antiquity. 



3. Negroloid crania, in which the osteological development cor- 

 responds to that of the Negro, while the hair, though harsh and some- 

 what wiry, is long and not woolly ; thus presenting that combination 

 of features which is familiar in the Mulatto grades of the present day. 



4. Negro. 



In many of the crania, the Arcto-Egyptian, Austro-Egyptian and 

 Semitic characters are variously blended ; while a few of them also 

 present traces of Negro lineage, modifying the features of the pre- 

 ceding types. The author presented, in anticipation of another sec- 

 tion of his memoir, the following tabular view of the entire collection 

 of heads, in which each one is classed according to the preponder- 

 ance of national organic characters. 



SEPULCHRAL LOCALITIES. 





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 23 >> 



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H 



P. 2 



<8 



s 



w 



."3 

 '3 

 "o 

 &i 



d 

 to 



<5 

 .a 



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Necropolis of Memphis, 



26 



21 



4 1 







Maabdeh, 



4 



2 







2 







Abydos, 



4 



2 



1 



1 









Catacombs of Thebes, 



55 



28 



16 



4 



5 





2 



Ombos, 



3 



1 



2 











Philce, 



4 



2 



1 







1 





Deboud, 



4 





4 













100 



56 



28 



6 



7 



l 



2 



It, therefore, appears that the Caucasian crania constitute nine-tenths 

 of the whole number; that the Negroloid heads are about one in four- 



