Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1794, p. 193. Footnote 119: Wilkinson’s Ancient Egyptians, Vol. III. p. 108. Footnote 120: See Mrs. Hamilton Gray’s History of Etruria, Vol. I., p. 29. Footnote 121: In my _Crania Americana_, Note p. 29, I have employed this passage to show, that those _Colchians_ whom Herodotus mentions as forming “part of the troops of Sesostris,” might have been Negroes acting as mercenary or auxiliary soldiers. I am now satisfied that such explanation is at least unnecessary, and I, therefore, take this occasion to withdraw it. Footnote 122: Polhym. Cap. lxx. Footnote 123: Among the meager facts which history has preserved in relation to these intrusive kings, the following is the most remarkable: “Sabakon (the first king of the Ethiopian dynasty) having taken Boccoris (the legitimate sovereign) captive, burnt him alive.” Manetho _apud_ Cory, Frag. p. 126. Could any circumstance have rendered the Ethiopians more detestable in the eyes of the Egyptians than this first act of barbarian policy? Footnote 124: Egypte Ancienne, p. 207. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book. ○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). End of Project Gutenberg's Crania Ægyptiaca, by Samuel George Morton