Types of mankind, or, Ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history / illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz, W. Usher, and H.S. Patterson ; by J.C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon.

  • Nott, Josiah C. (Josiah Clark), 1804-1873.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Types of mankind, or, Ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history / illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz, W. Usher, and H.S. Patterson ; by J.C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inoutli of the river Lycus, the vestiges of a city termed Kainai by Greeks, Cancz by Ro- maus, and Senn by Arabians ? Or, if it be absolutely necessary to obtain SINIM (more SINs than one), add to the preceding Senn the site of Sina, (285) about fifty miles north- eastward of Mosul; together with the “ large mounds ” called Sen, on the banks of the Euphrates, opposite Dair. One, or two, or all of these localities, amply suffice for the extremest points whence the Jews were to be summoned from captivity; and, singly or collectively, they are compre- hended in the LXX translation; where Sirilm is paraphrased by uc ym Tlsp<ru>v— “from a land of the Persians.” Aside from the obvious adaptation of these places, near the Euphrates or the Tigris, to the natural sway of Nebuchadnezzar who captured the Jews, no less than of Cyrus and Artaxerxes who released them; it is physically impossible, as well as unhistorical, that ancient Jews should have been expatriated to China: a country none of their descendants ever reached until centuries after the Christian era. (286) It is equally out of the question that the Septuagint translators could have known anything of China — a land beyond the horizon of Alexandrian knowledge previously to the time of Trajan, about a century after c.; or some 230 years after the various Hellenistic-Jews, called the LXX [ubi supra], had completed their labors. Indeed, they pretend to nothing of the kind; for they well knew that the SINIM were in the “land of the Persians; ” while Orientalists of the present day always understand, with the Chaldee paraphrast, “ from the southern country” of Assyria, in that passage. (287) We forbear from reagitating here the question elsewhere treated, whether there were really “ twelve tribes ” of Israel before the times of Sennacherib; nor what became of the ten said to have remained — where ? Some moderns (288) claim that these Israelites marched round by Behring’s Straits into America ; and, after building the cities of ancient Mexico and Peru, have run wild in our woods—in short, unaccountably become our Indians. Others have sought for them in Affghanistan; (289) although the portraits of Dost-Moham- med, Shah-Soojah, and their fierce cavaliers, are as little Jewish in lineaments as are their speech, and still more their bellicose habits: for the Bible shows that the Jews of Pales- tine, except under supernatural circumstances, were beaten and enslaved by any adjacent tribe that happened to covet their persons or property. If ever supposititious offshoots of the “ ten tribes ” wandered as far as Cabul, Bokhara, Balkh, or Samarcand, they were Jews at their migration, and Jews they would have remained in type and in religion, if cer- tainly not in language. Wolff found his compatriots everywhere. Indeed, we know, per- sonally and positively, that had the reverend renegade not been a true Hebrew, he could never have traversed Central Asia in 1832-’5. But he narrates that the fathers of those who kindly welcomed him, on the score of his inextinguishable Judaism, had established themselves in Affghan provinces very long after the fall of Jerusalem. We also know that Arabs (to the Abrahamidse closely allied) settled in Persia, Khorassan, Balkh, &c., ever since the Muslim invasion, one thousand years ago, having rarely intermarried with Tartars, remain physiologically distinct to this day. Yet while they have preserved the name, reli- gion, and appearance of Arabs, they have lost their Arabian language. (290) So it is with the Hebrew nation in every clime—indelibility of physical type, coupled with a most pliant faculty for change of tongue. If, then, exactly “ten tribes” of Israel were swept away into Chaldea, they did but return to their aboriginal centre of creation; and (mixing volun- tarily with no type of mankind but their own) they have naturally disappeared amid the (285) Latard: Second Expedition, Babylon; 1853; Map of Journeys; and p.297 (286) About 60,000 Jews are reputed to be there now; others reached Malabar about A. d. 490; — See Norr: Phys. Hist, of the Jewish Race; 1850; pp. 12, 13; and supra, pp. 117-123. (287) Cahen: Bible; ix. p. 176, note 12. (288) Delafield: American Antiquities. (289) Dcbecx : Afghanistan; pp. 65, 66. (290) Malcolm : History of Persia; 1815; p. 277; — Morier : Second Journey through Persia; 1818; i. pp. 47 48; — Pickering: Races; 1848; p. 240.