36 Some conjectures on the progress of [Jan. 



for making incense, of which a greater quantity was derived from their 

 country, than from any other tributary to Egypt. Their features were 

 regular without the prominent nose that characterises some eastern 

 people, represented in the sculptures ; and they were of a very light 

 colour, with brown or red hair, and blue eyes. Their long dress 

 usually furnished with tight sleeves, and fastened by strings round the 

 neck, either closed or folded over in front, and was sometimes secured 

 by a girdle. Beneath the outer robe, they wore a kelt ; and an ample 

 cloak probably woollen, like the modern her dm or blanket of Barbary, 

 was thrown over the whole dress ; the head being generally covered 

 with a close cap, or a fuller one bound with a fillet." 



Now the elephant is evidently with these people, the type-animal ; 

 they are the only nation which presents it, and, as Mr. Layard has 

 observed with reference to the elephant on the Nimroud obelisk 

 (Nineveh, Part II. ch. VI.), the small size of the ear shows it to have 

 been the representation of an Indian, not an African elephant. Mr. 

 Champollion may have termed these people Lydians, and Mr. Birch 

 may incline, as Mr. Layard says, " to identify them with the Cappado- 

 cians or Leuco-Syrians, inhabiting the country to the north and south 

 of the Taurus : who, he conjectures, are also represented at Khorsabad. 

 Their physical characteristics in the Egyptian sculptures are a light 

 complexion, brown, or red hair, and blue eyes ; and they bring horses, 

 chariots, rare woods, ivory, gloves, a bear, and gold and silver vases 

 with the head of Baal'' This description is taken from Birch's 

 Memoir on the statistical tablet of Kurnak, though Sir G. Wilkinson 

 is afterwards quoted ; and certainly if Mr. Birch suppresses all men- 

 tion of their type-animal, the elephant, which I do not doubt puzzled 

 him in such company, and gives them a head of Baal which the exact 

 Wilkinson has failed to see, he may " incline to identify" them with 

 any thing he pleases ; but untill he can prove the habitat of the ele- 

 phant to have ever been Lydia, or Cappadocia, or Leuco-Syria, or any 

 where to the west of the Indus in Asia, of which, as Mr. Layard justly 

 observes, there is no record, he must abandon his hypothesis. For 

 these tributaries, or ambassadors, are markedly furnished as with all 

 the other nations represented in their company, with the produce, live 

 or dead, the manufactures, and the very shrubs sometimes, peculiar to 

 their native land ; and consequently as they are the only people who 



