With the Tuaricks of Wadreag, Mr. Hodgson found hair so crisp and skin so black, as to look like Negroes. There was, however, no suspicion of Negro intermixture.
On the other band, so light-complexioned are the Amazirghs of the ancient Mons Aurasius, that the hypothesis of an intermixture of Vandalic blood from the subjects of Genseric has been entertained.
FOOTNOTES:
[182] Some of these have been collected by the present writer. See Classical Museum, vol. i.
F.
ÆGYPTIAN ATLANTIDÆ.
By Ægyptian Atlantidæ are meant the Old Ægyptians; the subjects of the Pharaohs and the Ptolemies; and the modern Copts so far as they are (what is rarely the case) of unmixed blood; the present dominant population of Ægypt being Arab.
COPTS.
Area.—The valley and delta of the Nile, from Essouan to the Mediterranean.