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Show oG2 TTTE J\{ONOGENISTS AND Egypt where this vast population of bondsmen. i.s supposed to ha~e dwelt. Now simultaneously with the Isracht1sh bondage, thmr Egyptian ma's ters emhmced at least 5,000,000 of popu· l at1. 0n; 455 .t h e latter were tho oppt·ossors; the former oppressed,-to such an abJect and inconceivable degree, that they allowed even their first-born to be butchered without armed revolt. Nevertheless, they" multiplied exceedingly;" in consequence, as Father Kircher states/60 of tho fecnndativo pmi e1'ties of tho Nile. A simple rule of three will test the relative ratio of increase. If 75 Jews, in a given number of years, notwithstanding the most atrocious and attenuating despotism, multiply so as to leave Egypt in number (say the lowest figure) 1,800,000 souls; what, during tho same period, in tho same climate, and f~wored by their comfortable position as slaveholders, instead of b ing slaves, was the statistical augmentation of 5,000,000 of Egyptians? rrbero is no reason, therefore, to be appalled at the Rabbinical estimate ofthc number of Adam's children by the "universal mother." Whatever the numerical amount may have been, their antediluviA,n descendants were drowned in the ] lood. Noah, hom, IIam, and Japhet, with their wives, in all but eight individuals, being the Oltly persons who landed-n.c. 2348-from the Ark upon MountArarat, to become the second progenitors of Mankind. From these four couples, after a considerable lapse of time down to tho middle of this XI th century, have proceeded, according to (POPULATION OF TIIE WORLD.) Balbi.................................................. 739 millions. Malte-Brun...... ............. ..... ............... ... 800 " D'IIalloy ......... ............... ..................... 750 " Reynolds's hart.................................. 852 " Ravenstein's Chart................................ 1,216 " Inasmuch, however, as we are yet ignorant of the interior topography of at least one-third of the earth's surface, whilst we absolutely know little or nothing about myriads of human b ings inhabiting such portions, it is probable that Dr. Gustaf Kombst's beautiful she ts 457 contain all attainable information, and to these I 4116 Gr.IOilON, Otia ..tEgyptiaca, p. 78. 4 60 "Undo foominoo non uno, duo bus, aut tribuR contontro, sed sox, soptom aut octo footua unico p1~rtu; quod ct llobmi in Exodnm commontatores mcmorant, aubindo cffundel>o.ot. Ncmini igolur mirum esAo debet, filiorum Israel spalio ducontorum propo annorum, quo JEgyptum incolcbant, immensam fuisso propagationom :"- (Edipus .IEgyptiacus, Romo, fol., 1652; •rom. I, p. 52. 467 "F.thnology, or tho difforont nntions and tribes of Mnn, trnccd according to Raco, Language, Religion, and Form of Oovcrnmont"-roviscd and oxtondcd to 1854 ;-JOHNSTON, P!lyaicul .Atlas, ucw eu., Edinburgh, 1855: Pl. 81, with six po.gos of description. THE POLYGRNIS1'S. 468 First used by Dlumonbach, for convenionco' sake, in crani~scopic subuivision~. . . 460 Invontcd first and ltppliod to ethnology by Prichar l, 1 bcllovo ( Reseatc!te~); •t JB t•mo that this unlucky term should be brought back to its primitive bistorionl mcanmg. 400 CAUCASIAN, from Kauk-.Aaos, monos only tho "mountain of tho ~si," or ".Aai of the o·utitoin ·"referring ton. spccit~lnution (AA, Os, Ossctos) on the Caucns•an rn.ngc. }~ONO~L :cant" ~rave, htntghty," ami was tho pcculitw honorific title of tho .~olden. horde of ?m.glnHkhil. n. ETuiOl'IAN, from .Aitlliops, signified only a "sun-burnt fnc~, and, m H~mcr•o tunc~, indicated m rely all nations darker than Greeks; to tho cxclus•on o.f negro 1 a~c.t;, at. lhn.t criod unknown to the fair-skinned Hollon ca. •ro .clnssify. E?ypt•.nns, Dt·av•<~um~, nncl ~as nos as if they had ~vcr been one family, instead of three chstmct types, u~d<ll tb •.w~o "c:uon~ian," which in no respect suits any of them ;-to include Lapps and S111.meso wttlnn the dosi nt\tion "Mongolinn," foreign and remote alike f1·om both;- or to o.mbrncc u~clcr the app~lltttion of "sun-burnt facos" (that is, only tnnnod or swarthy) AfrJCan Negtocs, |