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Their isolated state is only so in appearance ; 

 for it ceases, when, on embracing a greater 

 number of objects, we come to discover the 

 intermediate links. The learned, who find 

 Egyptians wherever there are mummies, hiero- 

 glyphics, or pyramids, will imagine, perhaps, 

 that the race of Typhon was united to the Gu- 

 anches by the Berbers, real Atlantics, to whom 

 belong the Tibboes and the Tuarycks of the 

 Desert*; but it is sufficient here to observe, 

 that this hypothesis is supported by no analogy-^ 

 between the Berberic and Coptic languages, 

 which are justly considered as a remnant of the 

 ancient Egyptian. 



The people who succeeded the Guanches de- 

 scended from the Spaniards, and in a less de- 

 gree from the Normans. Though these two 

 races have been exposed during three centuries 

 past to the same climate, the latter is distin- 

 guished by a whiter skin. The descendants of 

 the Normans inhabit the valley of Teganana, 

 between Punta de Naga and Punta de Hidalgo. 

 The names of Grandville and Dampierre are still 

 pretty common in this district. The Canarians 

 are a moral, sober, and religious people ; of a 

 less industrious character at home, than in 

 foreign countries. A roving and enterprising 



* Voyage de Hornemann du Cairo a Mourzouk, t. ii, p. 406. 

 t Mithridates, t. iii, p. 77. 



