AUTHOR OF “CRANIA AMERICANA;” MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY; VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, ETC. ETC.
From the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. IX.
PHILADELPHIA:
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LONDON:
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1844.
WILLIAM S. YOUNG, PRINTER.
TO
GEORGE R. GLIDDON, ESQ.,
LATE UNITED STATES CONSUL FOR THE CITY OF CAIRO; AUTHOR OF “ANCIENT EGYPT;”
&c. &c. &c.,
THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
AS A MEMENTO
OF THE ESTEEM AND FRIENDSHIP OF
THE AUTHOR.
Philadelphia,
February 23, 1844.
1OBSERVATIONS
ON
EGYPTIAN ETHNOGRAPHY,
DERIVED FROM
ANATOMY, HISTORY AND THE MONUMENTS.
Read before the American Philosophical Society, in Philadelphia, December 16, 1842, and January 6, and April 6, 1843.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
Egypt is justly regarded as the parent of civilization, the cradle of the arts, the landof mystery. Her monuments excite our wonder, and her history confounds chronology;and the very people who thronged her cities would be unknown to us, were it not forthose vast sepulchres whence the dead have arisen, as it were, to bear witness for themselvesand their country. Yet even now, the physical characteristics of the ancientEgyptians are regarded with singular diversity of opinion by the learned, who variouslyrefer them to the Jews, Arabs, Hindoos, Nubians, and Negroes. Even the de
