Identifier: 60411950R.nlm.nih.gov
Title: 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
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Nott, Josiah Clark, 1804-1873 Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 Usher, W Patterson, Henry S. (Henry Stuart), 1815-1854 Gliddon, George R. (George Robins), 1809-1857
Subjects: Anthropology Continental Population Groups Religion and Science
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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to the inner continent where we ourselves reside unto this day. Cosmas ignored whatever he could not find in the Bible; and, wiser than our modern theologers, this modest pattern for prurient orthodoxy never discovered China, Northern Europe, Central Africa, America, Polynesia, or Australia, in the canonical Scriptures. Let his map, and his own perspicuous language, explain true Mosaic cosmology. He begins with the exact Greek letter of Genesis i. 1: but his editor kindly furnishes the Vulgate:— Scriptum est In principio fecit Deus caelum et terram. Primum itaque caelum fornicatum.699 (N. B. My own tracing (made at the British Museum, in 1848, for personal remembrance) being too rough, we are indebted to the accomplished Mrs. Luke Burke for the facsimile transcript, of which the above is a copy; reduced slightly more than one half. Typographical exigenda compel us also to transfer Cosmass explanations from the map

COSMAS-INDICOPLEUSTES. 569 Cosmass Map. — Fio. 358. — I. TABULA.1 2 3
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570 BIBLICAL ETHNOGRAPHY.

itself into our text; but the letters A, B, C, &c, indicate the place of each. As the work of Cosmas is exceedingly rare, we hope theological students will appreciate the pains taken to furnish them with so clear an illustration of what they still call Mosaic cosmogony.— G. R. G.) Cosmass Greek Explanations. A — Adulis city (Abyssinia). B — the road from Adulis to the East — Ethiopians travelling.C — Ptolemys chair.D — Firmament. E l Waters which are above the Firmament. G i Columns (to support the Firmament).I —inhabited earth. J — land beyond the Ocean, where men dwelt before the Deluge.K — land beyond the Ocean.L — Caspian Sea.M — River Phison. N — 4 Points of the compass. 0 — Mediterranean Sea. P — Arabian Gulf. Q — Tigris. R— Euphrates. S — River Gihon. T — land beyond the Ocean. U — the Sun Occident. V — the Sun Orient.X— the Sun Occident. Y — the Sun Orient. Z — is Cosmass picture of the Almight

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