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lips, and their nose approaches the aquiline form j 1 those of 

 Iddah, on the Niger, have more rounded features, thinner 

 lips than the Ibus, and large receding foreheads. 2 The 

 natives of Accono-Coono, under 6 30', have not such coarse 

 Negro features, and are handsomer, and look more intelligent 

 than the southerns of Omun, resembling in this respect those 

 of Iddah. 3 In the same way, we learn that almost every- 

 where the decided Negro-type diminishes in these parts from 

 the coast inland. The Edeeyahs (Adiahs) of Fernando Po 

 have longer hair, more silky than woolly, round face, cheek- 

 bones not so high, narrower nostrils, thinner lips, and a finer 

 mouth than their neighbours on the continent ; the colour 

 varies from deep black to copper-colour, but the physiognomy 

 is the same in all. 4 



The preceding rather dry enumeration, which might have 

 been rendered more minute, of a great number of variations in 

 shape, was necessary to show how valueless is that asserted 

 fixity of the Negro type. Taken generally, it rests upon 

 fancy, for this type in its purity is limited to comparatively 

 few peoples; and, moreover, there prevails a great number 

 of other types, which may be partly considered as tran- 

 sitions to the European form, and partly as deviations and 

 modifications of Negro peculiarities, without any approach to 

 other races. That such transitions, between the Caucasian and 

 Negro-type, are not wanting, has been shown in the quoted 

 examples, and has been pointed out by various travellers. 

 The traveller from Cairo up the Nile to Nubia and Senaar, 

 finds himself, on account of the small gradations by which 

 the Egyptian passes in the Negro, embarrassed to decide 

 where the white race ceases and the black race commences. 5 



.e transitions are imperceptible ; it is only near Assuan that 

 there is a sudden change from the Egyptian to the Nubian 

 type. 6 On progressing from Tunis towards the south, there is 



1 Clapperton, " Tageb. der zweiten E.," p. 382, 1830. 



2 Allen and Thomson, i, p. 325. 



3 Becrofb, in " Journal Eoy. Greo. Soc.," xiv, p. 272. 



4 Allen and Thomson, ii, p. 194 ; " Nouv. ann. d. voy.," ii, p. 281, 1845 ; 

 Boteler, " Narrative of a voyage to Africa and Arabia," ii, p. 423, 1835. 



6 " D'Escayrac d. Afr. Wiiste und d. Land der Schwarzen," p. 184, 1855. 

 e Dandolo, " Viaggio in Egitto," p. 182, 1854. 



