XXXIV., Fig.

1.] [Illustration: PLATE 34] White in face the Assyrians appear thus to have borne a most close resemblance to the Jews, in shape and make they are perhaps more nearly represented by their descendants, the Chaldaeans of Kurdistan.

While the Oriental Jew has a spare form and a weak muscular development, the Assyrian, like the modern Chaldaean, is robust, broad-shouldered, and large-limbed.

Nowhere have we a race represented to us monumentally of a stronger or more muscular type than the ancient Assyrian.

The great brawny limbs are too large for beauty; but they indicate a physical power which we may well believe to have belonged to this nation--the Romans of Asia--the resolute and sturdy people which succeeded in imposing its yoke upon all its neighbors.