[179] Lesley, Man's Origin and Destiny, p. 149. Brugsch, Aus dem Orient,
p. 37.

[180] A common title on the monuments for the king is Per-aa, in the
dialect of Upper Egypt, Pher-ao in that of Lower Egypt, meaning "The lofty
house," equivalent to the modern Turkish title, "The Sublime Porte."

[181] "AEgypten und die Buecher Mosis, von Dr. Georg Ebers. Leipzig, 1868."
"Bunsen, Bibel-Werk," Erster Theil, p. 63.

[182] AEschylus calls the Egyptian sailors [Greek: melanchimos]. Lucian
calls a young Egyptian "black-skinned," but Ammianus Marcellinus says,
"AEgyptii plerique subfusculi sunt et atrati."

[183] "AEgypten und die Buecher Mosis, von Ebers, Vol. I. p. 43."

[184] "Th. Benfey, Ueber das verhaeltniss der aegyptischen Sprache zum
semitischen Sprachstamme, 1844."

[185] AEgypten, &c.

[186] "The skulls of the mummies agree with history in proving that Egypt
was peopled with a variety of tribes; and physiologists, when speaking
more exactly, have divided them into three classes. The first is the
Egyptian proper, whose skull is shaped like the heads of the ancient
Theban statues and the modern Nubians. The second is a race of men more
like the Europeans, and these mummies become more common as we approach
the Delta. These are perhaps the same as the modern Copts. The third is of
an Arab race, and are like the heads of the laborers in the
pictures."--Sharpe, Hist. of Egypt, I. 3. He refers to Morton's Crania
AEgyptiaca for his authority.

Prichard (Nat. Hist. of Man and Researches, &c.), after a full examination
of the question concerning the ethnical relations of the Egyptians, and of
Morton's craniological researches, concludes in favor of an Asiatic origin
of the Egyptians, connected with an amalgamation with the African
autocthones.

[187] "Dieser Voelkerschaften gehorten der kaukasischen Race an; ihre
Sprachen waren dem Semitischen am naechsten Verwandt." G. des A. I. 11.

[188] Brugsch derives it from Ki-Ptah = worshippers of Ptah.

[189] Plato, Timaeus. Herod. II. 59. Gutschmidt and others deny this
etymologic relation of Neith to Athene.

[190] "There is a profound consolation hidden in the old Egyptian
inscribed rocks. They show us that the weird figures, half man and half
beast, which we find carved and painted there, were not the true gods of
Egypt, but politico-religious masks, concealing the true godhead. These
rocks teach that the real object of worship was the one undivided Being,
existin