The Jews were immensely numerous in Egypt during the Ptolemaic and Roman epochs. Vide Josephus, Book XII., chap. ii—Sharpe, Egypt under the Romans, p. 13.
[74]. Letter to the Chev. Bunsen. See Wiseman’s Lectures on Science and Revealed Religion, 2d edit., p. 62; and a note at the end of that most learned and instructive work, “on the conformity between the Semitic and the Indo-European grammatical forms.”
[75]. “Toutes leurs formes sout anguleuses,” says Denon; “leur barbe courte et à mèches pointues.” Voyage en Egypte, I., p. 92.
[76]. Bedouins and Wahabys, p. 28.—Clot Bey, Aperçu generale de l’Egypte, I., p. 161.
[77]. Edinburgh Review, Vol. LX., p. 297.
[78]. Apud Mengin, Hist. de l’Egypte, III., p. 406.
[79]. I have stated, in my “Crania Americana,” that the Hindoos appear to have the smallest heads of any existing people; and that in the Inca Peruvians the brain was but a fraction larger. Later observations, however, have led me to believe that the Nigritos, or aboriginal Negro race of the Indian archipelago, present a nearly parallel example.
[80]. Rosellini, M. S. H. II, p. 174, 238.
[81]. Prichard, Egyptian Mythology, p. 35.
[82]. Crania Americana, p. 37.