[54]. For the funereal rites of the Guanches as compared with those of the Egyptians, see Bertholet, “Mémoires sur les Guanches,” in Mémoires de la Société Ethnologique de Paris, Tome I.—See also Blumenbach, Decad. Cran. Tab. XLII.
[55]. I use the word Meroë in a comprehensive sense for all the ancient civilized region south of Egypt.
[56]. Travels in Ethiopia, p. 329. Wilkinson, M. and C. Vol. I., Plate LXII.
[58]. Travels in Ethiopia, Plate [XIV]. See also Cailliaud, Voy. à Meroë, and Hoskins, Plate XXIX.
[59]. See Gliddon, Ancient Egypt, passim.
[60]. Modern Egyptians, Vol. II., p. 32.
[61]. Jomard, apud Mengin, Hist, de l’Egypte, p. 408. To this valuable memoir the reader is referred for various additional analogies which are unavoidably omitted on the present occasion.
[62]. “Le front haut et large, découvert et un pen fuyant.”—Jomard.
[63]. In addition to the few remarks already made in reference to my use of this term, I may observe that the Pelasgi were generally regarded as the aboriginal inhabitants of Thessaly; but their warlike and roving propensities led them to extend their migrations in various directions, until we find it difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between them and the affiliated tribes of Dacians, Macedonians and Thracians. At one period they ranged nearly the whole country from Illyria to the Black Sea, and gave the name of Pelasgia to all Greece; and, as every one knows, the Greeks or Hellenes were their lineal descendants. See Prichard, Researches, Vol. III., and Mrs. Gray’s History of Etruria, Vol. I., p. 86.