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contour of the head of the natural size, it is impossible not to be struck with 
the likeness it bears to the skull of the Georgian female represented by 
Blumenbach’s very instructive collection.” [This skull of a Georgian slave 
gave origin, if I mistake not, to “ the Caucasian race.”] 
“ It may be affirmed then that Cuvier’s opinion, founded on his examination 
of upwards of fifty heads of mummies ... is corroborated by the preceding 
observations, and that the systems which were founded on the Negro form, 
are destroyed by almost all the recent, and certainly the most accurate, 
investigations of this interesting subject. It is a curious fact, which 
has been noticed by more than one traveller, that whole families are to be 
found in Upper Egypt, in whom the general character of the head and face 
strongly resembles that of the best mummies discovered in the Hypogei of 
Thebes, and not less so, the human figures represented in the ancient 
monuments of the country.” 
(B.) 
Chwolson, Die Ssabier, &c., II. 634. 
Schith (Seth) was a prophet sent of God. ... He lived 950 years, and 
men began religion from him. The Ssabians call him Agathodiimon, and the 
Greeks Orafi (Orpheus). Schith means “ the gift of God.” 
To his children belongs Ssabi, from whom the Ssabians descend. 
Mohammed el Bashhami. 
Ibn Abi Ssalt — relates that the Ssabians and the Magi went on camels 
and on horses in pilgrimage to the Pyramids. They assembled from the 
most distant lands, and lighted flambeaux from the mountain to the river. 
It was for them a great feast. They also addressed prayers to the Sphinx. 
The formal testimony of an Arabian historian, named Abou Zakarija, who 
appears to have accompanied the Ssabians who made this pilgrimage, seems 
to authorize us to believe that they went to visit these monuments after the 
conquest of Egypt by the Mussulmans. Besides the flambeaux which they 
lighted round the Pyramids, the pilgrims made the circuit of them several 
times — a ceremony which the old Arabs practised, and still practise, around 
the Kaa’bah, a temple in the origin dedicated to the moon, and much revered 
by the Ssabians before the appearance of Mohammed, who destroyed 
Ssabism or the worship of the stars among the Arabs. These same Ssabians 
burnt incense, and sacrificed a black calf and a white cock — the first, without 
doubt, in honour of Agathodiimon, the other to Hermes ; two persons for 
whom they had a profound respect, and whose bodies, according to them 
had been deposited in the Pyramids. 
(C.) 
“ Horen wir nun, wie christliche Historiker iiber diesen Besuch des 
Kaisers Julian und iiber die Harranier jener Zeit sich aussprechen. Die 
