The Tokhari, we have seen, are represented as taken prisoners, in a sea-fight with Rhamses iii., of the twentieth dynasty, about the thirteenth century B.C.  They are probably the Tochari of Strabo.  The accompanying figure represents one of these people as they appear upon the Egyptian monuments. (See Nott and Gliddon’s “Types of Mankind,” p. 108.) Here we have, not an inhabitant of Atlantis, but probably a representative of one of the mixed races that sprung from its colonies.

Dr. Morton thinks these people, as painted on the Egyptian monuments, to have “strong Celtic features.  Those familiar with the Scotch Highlanders may recognize a speaking likeness.”

It is at least interesting to have a portrait of one of the daring race who more than three thousand years ago left the west of Europe in their ships to attack the mighty power of Egypt.

They were troublesome to the nations of the East for many centuries; for in 700 B.C. we find them depicted on the Assyrian monuments.  This figure represents one of the Tokhari of the time of Sennacherib.  It will be observed that the headdress (apparently of feathers) is the same in both portraits, al, though separated by a period of six hundred years.

It is more reasonable to suppose that the authors of the bronze Age of Europe were the people described by Plato, who were workers in metal, who were highly civilized, who preceded in time all the nations which we call ancient.  It was this people who passed through an age of copper before they reached the age of bronze, and whose colonies in America represented this older form of metallurgy as it existed for many generations.

Professor Desor says: 

“We are asked if the preparation of bronze was not an indigenous invention which had originated on the slopes of the Alps? . . .  In this idea we acquiesced for a moment.  But we are met by the objection that, if this were so, the natives, like the ancient tribes of America, would have commenced by manufacturing utensils of copper; yet thus far no utensils of this metal have been found except a few in the strand of Lake Garda.  The great majority of metallic objects is of bronze, which necessitated the employment of tin, and this could not be obtained except by commerce, inasmuch as it is a stranger to the Alps.  It would appear, therefore, more natural to admit that the art of combining tin with copper—­in other words, that the manufacture of bronze—­was of foreign importation.”  He then shows that, although copper ores are found in the Alps, the probability is that even “the copper also was of foreign importation.  Now, in view of the prodigious quantity of bronze manufactured at that epoch, this single branch of commerce must itself have necessitated the most incessant commercial communications.”