INHABITING PART OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. 217 
the Mongol physiognomy bore the strongest resemblance to 
the present Chinese and Bosjemao races. The early intro- 
duction of the Mongol or Northern Asiatic races into Pe- 
ninsular India is further attested by their influence on the 
modern Hindoo; for though the excellent Bltjmenbach 
assures us that the Hindoo cranium is quite equal in beauty 
and proportions to that of the Turk, and consequently re- 
fers the race to the Caucasian variety, yet, in the Hindoo 
heads I have examined, the development of the upper jaw 
has not been strictly Caucasian *. 
The vast antiquity of the Mongol hordes of Asia is fur- 
ther proved by the early establishment of the Chinese em- 
pire ; and though I am fully persuaded of the still greater 
antiquity of those of Hindostan and of Egypt, yet many 
passages in Herodotus point out that the Mongolic tribes, 
with a rapidity even exceeding the Caucasian, rapidly as- 
sumed the form of great and warlike nations. 
It wotild seem, then, from a hasty examination of histo- 
ric records, of the remains of antiquity, and of the laws and 
religious ceremonies transmitted from generation to genera- 
tion, that at a very early period the Mongol races pene- 
trated into Europe f and southern Asia; and there is no- 
thing improbable in the supposition, that they may have 
• The inspection of a fine collection of skulls, collected on the Banks of 
the Ganges, and which, through the kindness of Professor Jameson, I was 
enabled to examine immediately on their arrival, has confirmed me in this 
opinion. In these skulls, which, with the exception of one Negro head, seem 
all to be of the Caucasian race, the cranium is quite equal to any European, 
and its longitudinal diameter shorter than in most : but there is a develop- 
ment and strength in the upper maxillary bone which, I should think, will 
not be found to exist in any Turkish, Syriac, or Jewish head. 
-|- The peculiar Mongol face is very strongly marked in many families 
now inhabiting the Highlands of Scotland, and more particularly the He- 
brides. 
