[17]. “Dentes vegrandes, et incisorum quoque coronæ crassé cylindricæ magis aut obtusé conicæ, quam scalpriformes.” Decas prima, p. 12. See also Trans. Royal Soc. of London, 1794.
[18]. Prichard, Researches, Vol. II., p. 250.
[19]. Ptolemæi Geog. Lib. I., cap. ix., as quoted in Edinburgh Review, Vol. LX. p. 312.
[20]. Did any one ever read the Euterpe for the first time without some misgivings of this kind? I ask this question with a profound respect for the venerable historian and traveller.
[21]. It is a curious fact observed by Rosellini and others, that the Greeks painted some of their divinities red, as Jupiter and Pan; and even Venus herself appears to have been sometimes represented of the same colour. Monumenti Civili, II., p. 169.
[22]. “By saying that the Egyptians, for the most part, are of a brownish or somewhat brown colour, and of a tanned and blackened hue, the writer shows that this was not the case equally, at least, with all of them; and the expression subfusculi and atrati are very different from nigri or atri.”—Prichard, Researches, II., p. 232.
“Tra le specie d’uomini non affatto neri di pelle, e di fattezze diversi da quelli che noi siam soliti chiamare Africani, furono gli antichi Egizi: e quando Erodoto afferma che i Colchi erano una colonia d’Egitto, perché dessi pure avevano nero colore, non vuolsi già intende rigorosamente di quel colore, che proprio è dei Neri; ma tale ci lo chiama per rispetto al colore dei Bianchi e dei Greci stessi; e perché veramente l’incarnato degli Egiziani al nero in qualche modo si avvicinava. Noi lo diremmo con più giustezza color fosco; e questo epiteto diedero anche i Latini agli abitanti dell’Egitto, come si legge in Properzio: “An tibi non satis est fuscis Egyptus alumnis?””—Rosellini, Mon. Civ., II., p. 167.
[23]. Lectures on the connexion between Science and Revealed Religion, p. 102, 2d edit.
These remarks will also serve to explain why Aristotle has placed the Egyptians and Negroes in the same national category; which is not more surprising than his referring the Thracians to the Mongolian race, and attributing to them a red complexion.
[24]. The longitudinal diameter is measured from the most prominent part of the os frontis, between the superciliary ridges, to the extreme end of the occiput.