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Show 320 TilE CRANIAL CliARACTERISTICS accompanying letter, vouches for their general accuracy and faithfulness to nature. "1'his skull," says Dr. Norr, "is very interesting, in several points of view. Its immense size confirms hi~ tory by showing that uono but a high 'Caucasian' race could have achieved so much greatness. The moa~urcmcnts taken from the drr~wing are- Longitudinal diameter, 7f inches. ~·rnns verso 6 i Verticr~l 6t "It is probable that tho parietal dinmotcr is larger than the measurement here given; because, possessor of only front nnd profile viows, I think those may not express fairly tho posterior parts of t.hc head. Thoro nrc but two bends in Morton's whole Egyptirm series of equal size, and these arc 'Polasgic ;' nor more than two oqu~tlly hLrge throughout his American series. Daniel Webster's hcnd monsured-longitudinnl diameter, 7'f inches; lt'llnsversc, 6f; verticn.l, 6~: and comparison will show that the Assyrian head is but o. fmction the smaller of the two.•lo "'L'his Assyrian head, moreover, is remarkable for its close rcscmblnnco to several of Morton's Egyptian series, classed unclcr the 'Pclasgic form.' It thus odds another powcl'f'ul confirmation to the frLot this volume (' 1'ypcs of M1mkind') establishes, viz., that the Egyptians, at all monumental times, were a mixed people, 11nd in all hi storical ngos were much amalgamated with Chnld11ic moos. Any one, familiar with crani11, who will oompnro this Assyrian head with the beautiful Egyptian series lithogmphcd in the Crania Lf!,'gyptiaca, ctmnot fail to be struck with its rcscmblan ·o to many of the latter, even moro forcibly than anatomists will, through our s mr~ll, if accurate, wood-cut8." Fig. 41. Tho familiar Hebraic typo is very well shown in Fig. 41 (No. 842 of the Mortonian Collection), representing a mummicd cranium, taken from an Egyptian scpuleht·o. "This head," writes MowroN, "possesses groat interest, on account of its decided Hebrew features, of which many examples arc extant on tho monuments" (ofEgypt). The fmgmcntary colossal head from Kouyunjilc (Fig. 42, on nc>..'t page), o.ftords an cxc 1- lcnt idea of the higher and more ancient Chaldmic type . . I has~cn to complete tho consideration of Caucasio.n types by rcfcrrtug bnoi:ly to the peculiarities presented by Egyptian crania. Dr. :uo Dut even tho hend of Webster is surpassed by the skull of n Oormnn baker in tho Museum of the University of Louisville, which Prof. T. G. RrcnAttiJSON, with the as~istrmcc of' ~>r~f. D. SILLmAN, .rn., found to possess the cxtrnordinary internal cnpncity of 126.77 cub10 mchos, nod to present tlte following external measurements: Occipito-frontal, or longituclinal diameter............................... 8t inches. Di-pnrictnl, O\' trnnevet•so diameter .... .... .. .. .. ... ... .. ............. .... 6! Vcrticnl diameter............... ... ...... ......... ...... .............. ......... 6! Circnmforoncc .................................................................. 28t Over the vortex, between the centres of tho auditory meatuses ... I4t " See Elements of lluman .A.11atomy. By'!'. 0. ltiohtu·d~on, M.D. Philadn., l!lo4, }J. l67. OF TIU~ RACES OF MEN. 321 MoRTON's severely learned and ac- Fig. 42. curate labors in this field arc too won known to tho scientific world to render necessary in this place any lengthened ceaniographic description of the exceedingly ancient and highly ci vilizod occupants of tho classic N-ilotic~ Tell us. Premising that the popubtwn of Egypt, oven in very remote times, was exceedingly mixed, that the ancient scpu l ·hrcs of the Nile contain Ncg1·oid as well as Caucasian crania, and that, among the latter, Mon1'0N distinguished three distinct forms or varieties-the Egyptian proper, tho Pclasgic, and Semitic,- I pl'Ocood to g ive the reader some id a of the first two ofthcsc varieties by means of'thc following cono.isc extracts and expressive illustratious' taken at random from Omnia ./.Egyptiaca. ' "'l'h 0 EOo'. YP f 1 ~ll :f.'o rm d'tf l'c ·r s i' rom the .Pclasgic in havinO' a narrow and more rcccchng for head, while, the face bcin(J' more prominent t!1c facial angle is consequently loss. Tho nose fs straight or aqui~ l1ne, the ~ace angula.r, tho features often sharp, and the hair uniformly long, soft, and curhng. The subjoiJJod wood-cut (Fig. 43) Fig. 4.3. Fig. 4.4. Fig. 46. |